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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... everything works out in the end . I switched off the television , climbed into bed , and was asleep in ten seconds ... everything in town was melting . The breakwater , the cranes , the rows of buildings , the figures beneath their black ...
... everything works out in the end . I switched off the television , climbed into bed , and was asleep in ten seconds ... everything in town was melting . The breakwater , the cranes , the rows of buildings , the figures beneath their black ...
Page 238
... everything in their power , but every- thing was not enough . Hundreds of thousands of locusts swooped down on their crops and laid them to waste . Nothing was left in their wake . When the locusts departed , the youth went out into the ...
... everything in their power , but every- thing was not enough . Hundreds of thousands of locusts swooped down on their crops and laid them to waste . Nothing was left in their wake . When the locusts departed , the youth went out into the ...
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... everything squared away . My own self with my own memories and my own weaknesses . That's why I sent you that photograph as a kind of code . If by some accident it steered you this way , I thought I would be saved in the end . " " And ...
... everything squared away . My own self with my own memories and my own weaknesses . That's why I sent you that photograph as a kind of code . If by some accident it steered you this way , I thought I would be saved in the end . " " And ...
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