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 57
... changed ? " asked my part- ner . " We're still the same . Not anyone or anything has changed . " " You really think so ? " " I really do . Exploitation doesn't exist . It's a fairy tale . Even you don't believe that Salvation Army ...
... changed ? " asked my part- ner . " We're still the same . Not anyone or anything has changed . " " You really think so ? " " I really do . Exploitation doesn't exist . It's a fairy tale . Even you don't believe that Salvation Army ...
Page 104
... changed shape . The giraffe and the bear have traded hats , and the bear's switched scarves with the zebra . " " Same as ever , " J laughed . " Times have changed , " I said . " A lot of things have changed . But the bottom line is ...
... changed shape . The giraffe and the bear have traded hats , and the bear's switched scarves with the zebra . " " Same as ever , " J laughed . " Times have changed , " I said . " A lot of things have changed . But the bottom line is ...
Page 111
... changed , I wouldn't see it that way . I wouldn't want to admit it . Once I did , I wouldn't be able to go anywhere . So as far as I'm concerned , everything's completely changed . " " I think I understand , " I said . A brief pause ...
... changed , I wouldn't see it that way . I wouldn't want to admit it . Once I did , I wouldn't be able to go anywhere . So as far as I'm concerned , everything's completely changed . " " I think I understand , " I said . A brief pause ...
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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 |