A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 1, 2010 - Fiction - 368 pages
A 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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Section 1
3
Section 2
15
Section 3
23
Section 4
45
Section 5
46
Section 6
53
Section 7
59
Section 8
66
Section 12
99
Section 13
155
Section 14
161
Section 15
176
Section 16
199
Section 17
263
Section 18
294
Section 19
324

Section 9
71
Section 10
75
Section 11
79
Section 20
326
Section 21
349
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About the author (2010)

Born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1949, HARUKI MURAKAMI grew up in Kobe and now lives near Tokyo. The most recent of his many honors is the Yomiuri Literary Prize, whose previous recipients include Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe, and Kobo Abe. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages.

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