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A Wild Sheep Chase

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Author: Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 9780375718946

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Published on Apr 09, 2002 | 368 Pages

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A 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.

“Murakami is a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman.” —New York Times Book Review

“A delight … equal parts screwball comedy, detective story, and heroic quest.” —USA Today

“A witty adventure … a piece of verbal anarchy … a labyrinthine mystery from start to finish.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Marvelously engaging, at turns witty, dry, wicked, even loopy. Reading A Wild Sheep Chase is like spending a splendidly foul weekend with the Four Raymonds—Chandler, Carver, Massey, and Queneau.” —Frederick Barthelme

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Haruki Murakami

HARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and one of the most recent of his many international honors is the Cino Del Duca World Prize, whose previous recipients include Jorge Luis Borges, Ismail Kadare, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Joyce Carol Oates.

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