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 stopped into a liquor store , bought two cans of beer , and carried them in a paper bag down to the sea . Where the river met the sea , it turned into an inlet , or rather into a half - filled - in canal . Here was the only untouched ...
I stopped into a liquor store , bought two cans of beer , and carried them in a paper bag down to the sea . Where the river met the sea , it turned into an inlet , or rather into a half - filled - in canal . Here was the only untouched ...
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A few , their heads protruding from their pens , had stopped drinking water and had frozen in place , fixing their eyes on me . They seemed to think as a group . Had my standing in the entrance momentarily interrupted their unified ...
A few , their heads protruding from their pens , had stopped drinking water and had frozen in place , fixing their eyes on me . They seemed to think as a group . Had my standing in the entrance momentarily interrupted their unified ...
Page 325
Everything - names , sensations , places — dissolved and was swallowed into the darkness . In the dark the clock struck eight - thirty . The snow had stopped , but thick clouds still covered the sky . No light anywhere .
Everything - names , sensations , places — dissolved and was swallowed into the darkness . In the dark the clock struck eight - thirty . The snow had stopped , but thick clouds still covered the sky . No light anywhere .
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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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