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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... and train and bus lines everywhere , overlapping like some misshapen spider- web , the whole area a maze of narrow streets and drainage canals . The day of the funeral , I took a streetcar 3 Wednesday Afternoon Picnic ...
... and train and bus lines everywhere , overlapping like some misshapen spider- web , the whole area a maze of narrow streets and drainage canals . The day of the funeral , I took a streetcar 3 Wednesday Afternoon Picnic ...
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A Novel Haruki Murakami. The day of the funeral , I took a streetcar from Waseda . I got off near the end of the line . The map proved about as helpful as a globe would have been . I ended up buying pack after pack of ciga- rettes ...
A Novel Haruki Murakami. The day of the funeral , I took a streetcar from Waseda . I got off near the end of the line . The map proved about as helpful as a globe would have been . I ended up buying pack after pack of ciga- rettes ...
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... took on a desolate cast , the colors swiftly fad- ing before my eyes . The sunlight , the smell of the grass , the faintest patter of rain , everything got on my nerves . How many times did I dream of catching a train at night ? Always ...
... took on a desolate cast , the colors swiftly fad- ing before my eyes . The sunlight , the smell of the grass , the faintest patter of rain , everything got on my nerves . How many times did I dream of catching a train at night ? Always ...
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... took a deep breath . A slight humming in my ears . Like a sea breeze whistling through a rusty wire screen . Come to think of it , when was the last time I was at the beach ? Let's see . July 24 , 6:30 A.M. Ideal time of year for the ...
... took a deep breath . A slight humming in my ears . Like a sea breeze whistling through a rusty wire screen . Come to think of it , when was the last time I was at the beach ? Let's see . July 24 , 6:30 A.M. Ideal time of year for the ...
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... took off my watch , with not a flinch from her the whole while . Looking at her back called up memories . Memories of times before I'd met her . " Well then , " I spoke up in a voice not quite my own , the sound piped in . As expected ...
... took off my watch , with not a flinch from her the whole while . Looking at her back called up memories . Memories of times before I'd met her . " Well then , " I spoke up in a voice not quite my own , the sound piped in . As expected ...
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