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A wild sheep chase Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publication details: New York Vintage Books 2002.Edition: 1st Vintage international edDescription: 353 p. 21 cmISBN:
  • 037571894X (trade paper)
Uniform titles:
  • Hitsuji o meguru bōken English
DDC classification:
  • 895.6/35 21
LOC classification:
  • PL856.U673 H5713 2002
Online resources: Summary: 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.
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Books Books GESM Library Main Library English Fiction Adolescent-Adult EFA/ MA/ MUR W668 Available E0000833

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.

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