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 148
... asked the chauf- feur . " Good idea , " I said . And at that a Chopin ballade filled the car . I got the feeling I was in a dressing room at a wedding reception . " Say , " I asked the chauffeur , " you know the value of pi ? ” " You ...
... asked the chauf- feur . " Good idea , " I said . And at that a Chopin ballade filled the car . I got the feeling I was in a dressing room at a wedding reception . " Say , " I asked the chauffeur , " you know the value of pi ? ” " You ...
Page 180
... asked the chauffeur . " Why just Flight 971 or Flight 326 , and not the Bell- flower or the Daisy ? ” " Probably because there're more planes than boats . Mass pro- duction . " " I wonder . Lots of boats are mass - produced , and they ...
... asked the chauffeur . " Why just Flight 971 or Flight 326 , and not the Bell- flower or the Daisy ? ” " Probably because there're more planes than boats . Mass pro- duction . " " I wonder . Lots of boats are mass - produced , and they ...
Page 234
... asked the youth . " Here is also good . " The farmers shook their heads . This scene repeated itself any number of times until finally they arrived at the site of present - day Asahikawa . Seven days and one hundred miles from Sapporo ...
... asked the youth . " Here is also good . " The farmers shook their heads . This scene repeated itself any number of times until finally they arrived at the site of present - day Asahikawa . Seven days and one hundred miles from Sapporo ...
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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 |