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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... watched the piano player . She was about twenty , her shoulder - length hair immaculately coiffed like whipped cream atop a cake . The coif swayed merrily , left and right , to the rhythm , bouncing back to center when the song ended ...
... watched the piano player . She was about twenty , her shoulder - length hair immaculately coiffed like whipped cream atop a cake . The coif swayed merrily , left and right , to the rhythm , bouncing back to center when the song ended ...
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A Novel Haruki Murakami. the refrigerator , so I opened up a beer and watched television . Nothing newsworthy on the news either . On Sunday evenings like this , it's always some zoo scene . I watched the rundown of giraffes and ...
A Novel Haruki Murakami. the refrigerator , so I opened up a beer and watched television . Nothing newsworthy on the news either . On Sunday evenings like this , it's always some zoo scene . I watched the rundown of giraffes and ...
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... watched the office activities , but mainly her . The more I looked at her breasts , the more unusually large they seemed . She must have been strapped into a brassiere with cables from the Golden Gate Bridge . Several of the junior ...
... watched the office activities , but mainly her . The more I looked at her breasts , the more unusually large they seemed . She must have been strapped into a brassiere with cables from the Golden Gate Bridge . Several of the junior ...
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