A wild sheep chase / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum.
"A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, 'A Wild Sheep Chase' is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami's international reputation. 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."--Publisher description.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780375718946
- Physical Description: 353 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 1st Vintage international edition.
- Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2002.
- Copyright: ©1989.
Content descriptions
Language Note: | Translated from the Japanese. |
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Subject: | Advertising executives > Fiction. Sheep > Fiction. Threats > Fiction. Tokyo (Japan) > Fiction. Japan > Social life and customs > Fiction. |
Genre: | Japanese fiction > Translations into English. Suspense fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Selkirk College.
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