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 16
... silent . More silent than it ought to be . That's when I noticed the red pumps at my feet . Red pumps I've seen before ... silence hovered about them , fine as dust . She was slumped over the kitchen table , forehead on 16 HARUKI MURAKAMI.
... silent . More silent than it ought to be . That's when I noticed the red pumps at my feet . Red pumps I've seen before ... silence hovered about them , fine as dust . She was slumped over the kitchen table , forehead on 16 HARUKI MURAKAMI.
Page 124
... silence you encounter on entering a grand manor . And there is the silence that comes of too few people in too big a space . But this was a different quality of silence altogether . A ponderous , oppressive silence . A silence ...
... silence you encounter on entering a grand manor . And there is the silence that comes of too few people in too big a space . But this was a different quality of silence altogether . A ponderous , oppressive silence . A silence ...
Page 128
... silent . This was a definitive silence , one you could judge the qualities of other silences by . " Anyway , what we want is a few pieces of information : namely , where and from whom did you receive that photograph , and what was your ...
... silent . This was a definitive silence , one you could judge the qualities of other silences by . " Anyway , what we want is a few pieces of information : namely , where and from whom did you receive that photograph , and what was your ...
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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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