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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... hands around the coffee cup as if to warm her- self and fixed her eyes on me , her lip lightly riding the rim of the mug . " There's salad in the fridge , " she said . " Salad ? " " Tomatoes and string beans . 18 HARUKI MURAKAMI.
... hands around the coffee cup as if to warm her- self and fixed her eyes on me , her lip lightly riding the rim of the mug . " There's salad in the fridge , " she said . " Salad ? " " Tomatoes and string beans . 18 HARUKI MURAKAMI.
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... There was an edge to her voice . I glanced up from the salad bowl . " You think not ? " " Somehow , no , " she said quietly . " You , you're not the type . " " What type ? " " I don't know , there's something about you . Say there's an ...
... There was an edge to her voice . I glanced up from the salad bowl . " You think not ? " " Somehow , no , " she said quietly . " You , you're not the type . " " What type ? " " I don't know , there's something about you . Say there's an ...
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... there's sex as pastime . There's sex for self - improvement start to finish and there's sex for killing time straight through ; sex that is therapeutic at first only to end up as nothing - better - to - do , and vice versa . Our human ...
... there's sex as pastime . There's sex for self - improvement start to finish and there's sex for killing time straight through ; sex that is therapeutic at first only to end up as nothing - better - to - do , and vice versa . Our human ...
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... there had to be so many kinds of fish . There were , of course , no whales in the aquarium . One whale would have been too big , even if you knocked out all the walls and made the entire aquarium into one tank . Instead , the aquarium ...
... there had to be so many kinds of fish . There were , of course , no whales in the aquarium . One whale would have been too big , even if you knocked out all the walls and made the entire aquarium into one tank . Instead , the aquarium ...
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