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 - soap , shampoo , shaving cream . I stepped out of the shower and dried my hair , rubbed on body lotion , cleaned my ears . Then to the kitchen to heat up the last of the coffee . Only to discover : no one sitting at the ...
... everything - soap , shampoo , shaving cream . I stepped out of the shower and dried my hair , rubbed on body lotion , cleaned my ears . Then to the kitchen to heat up the last of the coffee . Only to discover : no one sitting at the ...
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... everything with the least womanly scent was gone . She probably even wiped off her fingerprints . A third of the books and records was gone too - anything she'd bought herself or I'd given her . From the photo albums , every single ...
... everything with the least womanly scent was gone . She probably even wiped off her fingerprints . A third of the books and records was gone too - anything she'd bought herself or I'd given her . From the photo albums , every single ...
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... brought it to that cavernous exhibition room ? My heart ached , thinking about it . I felt as if I didn't have a hope in the world . But I was only seventeen and clearly too young to give up on everything . It 30 HARUKI MURAKAMI.
... brought it to that cavernous exhibition room ? My heart ached , thinking about it . I felt as if I didn't have a hope in the world . But I was only seventeen and clearly too young to give up on everything . It 30 HARUKI MURAKAMI.
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A Novel Haruki Murakami. clearly too young to give up on everything . It was then and there I came to the realization I have borne in mind ever since . Which is , that I am not a whale . In bed now with my new girlfriend , running my ...
A Novel Haruki Murakami. clearly too young to give up on everything . It was then and there I came to the realization I have borne in mind ever since . Which is , that I am not a whale . In bed now with my new girlfriend , running my ...
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