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 124
... fingers . Slowly reaching across the table to crush out the cigarette not one - third smoked . I watched the ice ... finger on it , of the silence that hangs around a terminal patient . A silence pregnant with the presentiment of death ...
... fingers . Slowly reaching across the table to crush out the cigarette not one - third smoked . I watched the ice ... finger on it , of the silence that hangs around a terminal patient . A silence pregnant with the presentiment of death ...
Page 216
... fingers and am balding . " " I see , " I said . " An eccentric man , your father . " " As his son , it's not for me to say , but yes , an eccentric man indeed . A completely changed man since he encountered sheep . Extremely difficult ...
... fingers and am balding . " " I see , " I said . " An eccentric man , your father . " " As his son , it's not for me to say , but yes , an eccentric man indeed . A completely changed man since he encountered sheep . Extremely difficult ...
Page 218
... finger for us to sit down on the bed . We made our way over , strad- dling books as if crossing a minefield , and ... fingers were thick with black hair right up to his knuckles . The blackness in stark contrast to the brilliant white ...
... finger for us to sit down on the bed . We made our way over , strad- dling books as if crossing a minefield , and ... fingers were thick with black hair right up to his knuckles . The blackness in stark contrast to the brilliant white ...
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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 |