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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... comes to killing time in the city . A built - in ceiling speaker called my name . At first it didn't sound like my ... come to me that my name was my name . The waiter brought a cordless transceiver - phone over to the table . " There ...
... comes to killing time in the city . A built - in ceiling speaker called my name . At first it didn't sound like my ... come to me that my name was my name . The waiter brought a cordless transceiver - phone over to the table . " There ...
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... comes down to is that everyone's poor , but we want to believe that if things work out , we'll be through with ... come ? " " It's the territory . Hokkaido's cold country , every few years there's a killer frost . If their crops die , A ...
... comes down to is that everyone's poor , but we want to believe that if things work out , we'll be through with ... come ? " " It's the territory . Hokkaido's cold country , every few years there's a killer frost . If their crops die , A ...
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... come , only gasps of stale breath . I went upstairs , took off my sweater , and burrowed under the covers . I was swept by alternating waves of chills and fever . With each wave the ... comes the sound of waves . Heavy winter waves 340 LI.
... come , only gasps of stale breath . I went upstairs , took off my sweater , and burrowed under the covers . I was swept by alternating waves of chills and fever . With each wave the ... comes the sound of waves . Heavy winter waves 340 LI.
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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 |