A Wild Sheep ChaseA marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami's international reputation. It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company's advertisement. What he doesn't realize is that included in the pastoral 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 in black who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins a surreal and elaborate quest that takes our hero from the urban haunts of Tokyo to the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan, where he confronts not only the mythological sheep, but the confines of tradition and the demons deep within himself. Quirky and utterly captivating, A Wild Sheep Chase is Murakami at his astounding best. |
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“ I turn a corner , ” I offered , “ just as someone ahead of me turns the next corner . I can't see what that person looks like . All I can make out is a flash of white coattails . But the whiteness of the coattails ...
“ I turn a corner , ” I offered , “ just as someone ahead of me turns the next corner . I can't see what that person looks like . All I can make out is a flash of white coattails . But the whiteness of the coattails ...
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Occasionally , someone coughed with a dry rasp that sounded like a mummy tapped on the head with a pair of tongs . Each time the train pulled into a station , someone got off . Whenever someone got off , the conductor also got off to ...
Occasionally , someone coughed with a dry rasp that sounded like a mummy tapped on the head with a pair of tongs . Each time the train pulled into a station , someone got off . Whenever someone got off , the conductor also got off to ...
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Someone was trying to break up the frozen globe of the earth with a massive hammer . The hammer struck the earth precisely eight times . But the earth failed to break up . It only cracked a little . Eight o'clock , eight at night .
Someone was trying to break up the frozen globe of the earth with a massive hammer . The hammer struck the earth precisely eight times . But the earth failed to break up . It only cracked a little . Eight o'clock , eight at night .
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User Review - donhazelwood - LibraryThingThis book ... this book ... this book came at me like Kurt Vonnegut on Risperidone telling his version of Moby Dick. A great read - I don't quite know what Murakami was trying to say - but I throughly ... Read full review
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User Review - Aug3Zimm - LibraryThingIntellectually interesting but not emotionally engaging. One thing I really enjoy about Murakami is how he portrays a sense of disconnectedness between people. That feeling was more prevalent in the ... Read full review
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| Title | A Wild Sheep Chase Vintage International |
| Author | 春樹·村上 |
| Translated by | Alfred Birnbaum |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Vintage Books, 2002 |
| ISBN | 037571894X, 9780375718946 |
| Length | 353 pages |
| Subjects | › › FICTION / Mystery & Detective / International Mystery & Crime Fiction / Literary Fiction / Magical Realism Fiction / Mystery & Detective / International Crime & Mystery |
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