A Wild Sheep Chase: A NovelA New York Times bestselling author—and “a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman” (New York Times Book Review)—delivers a surreal and elaborate quest that takes readers from Tokyo to the remote mountains of northern Japan, where the unnamed protagonist has a surprising confrontation with his demons. An advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates the image for an advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. |
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... clock , no timetable , no nothing - so went the dream . I still remember that eerie afternoon . The twenty - fifth of Novem- ber . Gingko leaves brought down by heavy rains had turned the footpaths into dry riverbeds of gold . She and I ...
... clock , no timetable , no nothing - so went the dream . I still remember that eerie afternoon . The twenty - fifth of Novem- ber . Gingko leaves brought down by heavy rains had turned the footpaths into dry riverbeds of gold . She and I ...
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... clock . Two in the morning . A startlingly white moon shone in the middle of the sky . I waited for her to stop crying before putting the kettle on for tea . One teabag for the both of us . No sugar , no lemon , just plain hot tea ...
... clock . Two in the morning . A startlingly white moon shone in the middle of the sky . I waited for her to stop crying before putting the kettle on for tea . One teabag for the both of us . No sugar , no lemon , just plain hot tea ...
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... a breath . I glanced at the burning tip of the cigarette in my mouth . " How did this acquaintance die ? " " Hit by a truck . Thirteen bones fractured . " " Female ? " " Uh - huh . " The seven o'clock news A Wild Sheep Chase 19.
... a breath . I glanced at the burning tip of the cigarette in my mouth . " How did this acquaintance die ? " " Hit by a truck . Thirteen bones fractured . " " Female ? " " Uh - huh . " The seven o'clock news A Wild Sheep Chase 19.
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A Novel Haruki Murakami. " Uh - huh . " The seven o'clock news and traffic report came to an end , and light rock returned to the airwaves . She set her coffee back down and looked me in the face . " Tell me , if I died , would you go ...
A Novel Haruki Murakami. " Uh - huh . " The seven o'clock news and traffic report came to an end , and light rock returned to the airwaves . She set her coffee back down and looked me in the face . " Tell me , if I died , would you go ...
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... , this was hardly what you could call a tragedy . July 24 , 8:25 A.M. I checked the numerals of the digital clock , closed my eyes , and fell asleep . Part Three September , Two Months Later The Whale's Penis 26 HARUKI MURAKAMI.
... , this was hardly what you could call a tragedy . July 24 , 8:25 A.M. I checked the numerals of the digital clock , closed my eyes , and fell asleep . Part Three September , Two Months Later The Whale's Penis 26 HARUKI MURAKAMI.
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