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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... photograph was taken within the last six months by a total amateur . The camera , a cheap pocket - size model . It was not you who took the photograph . You have a Nikon SLR and take better pictures . And you haven't been to Hokkaido in ...
... photograph was taken within the last six months by a total amateur . The camera , a cheap pocket - size model . It was not you who took the photograph . You have a Nikon SLR and take better pictures . And you haven't been to Hokkaido in ...
Page 210
... photograph was the same . " Just great , " I said to her . " All this time we've been passing right under this photograph . " " That's why I told you it had to be the Dolphin Hotel , " she blurted out . " Well then , " I asked the man ...
... photograph was the same . " Just great , " I said to her . " All this time we've been passing right under this photograph . " " That's why I told you it had to be the Dolphin Hotel , " she blurted out . " Well then , " I asked the man ...
Page 278
... photograph . I didn't need to pull out the photograph to check . Still , it was unsettling seeing with my very own eyes a scene I had by now seen hundreds of times in a photograph . The depth of the actual place seemed artificial . Less ...
... photograph . I didn't need to pull out the photograph to check . Still , it was unsettling seeing with my very own eyes a scene I had by now seen hundreds of times in a photograph . The depth of the actual place seemed artificial . Less ...
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |