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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Page 192
... Hotel , " I said . " That's where we're staying . " " Never heard of it . " " But I can't see us staying at any other hotel . " I returned the phone book , then called the Dolphin Hotel . A man with an indistinct voice answered ...
... Hotel , " I said . " That's where we're staying . " " Never heard of it . " " But I can't see us staying at any other hotel . " I returned the phone book , then called the Dolphin Hotel . A man with an indistinct voice answered ...
Page 216
... Hotel owner , " but he dislikes me . He never once held me since the day I was born . Never once had a kind word for ... hotel man . " Shall we go and try to see him directly , then ? " I asked . " I don't know , " said the hotel man ...
... Hotel owner , " but he dislikes me . He never once held me since the day I was born . Never once had a kind word for ... hotel man . " Shall we go and try to see him directly , then ? " I asked . " I don't know , " said the hotel man ...
Page 229
... hotel owner accepted the luggage graciously . I settled the bill up through the following day and told him we'd be back in a week or two . " Was my father of any help ? " he asked worriedly . I said that he'd helped enormously . " I ...
... hotel owner accepted the luggage graciously . I settled the bill up through the following day and told him we'd be back in a week or two . " Was my father of any help ? " he asked worriedly . I said that he'd helped enormously . " I ...
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Ainu youth Asahikawa asked ballpoint pen beer better birch Boss caretaker chaise longue chauffeur cigarette clock coffee cold cyst dark desk Dolphin Hotel door drank ears everything eyes face feel fingers girlfriend glass gone guess hair hand Haruki Murakami head Hokkaido it'd J's Bar Japan jeep Junitaki Junitaki-cho killer frost kitchen lighter living looked mean minutes months morning mountains never nodded okay opened partner pasture photograph pocket probably pulled rain Rat's river road Sapporo seemed Sheep Professor Shinjuku Station silence sleep smoke snow sofa someone sound Sputnik Sweetheart stared stood sure talk tell there's things thought Tokyo took town turned U.S. Army waiting walked watched whiskey whole Wild Sheep Chase Wind-Up Bird Chronicle window winter word
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |