A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (Trilogy of the Rat Book 3)
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (550 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0041D8UKE |
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| Number of Pages | : | 338 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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The narrator is a modern Japanese yuppie: divorced, in a mildly exciting relationship and a much less exciting job as an ad copywriter, he lives unexceptionally until a photograph throws his life into chaos. Big who, moribund, wants the source found before he dies. With the help of a fluid, slangy translation, Murakami emerges as a wholly original talent. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly Immensely popular in Japan, the author's first novel to be published here is a comic combination of disparate styles: a mock-hardboiled mystery, a metaphys
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. A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chaseis the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami’s international reputation. 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.. It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insuranc
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