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A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 895.635
EAN: 9780375718946
ISBN: 037571894X
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: April 09, 2002
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: April 09, 2002
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Review:
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. Quirky and utterly captivating, A Wild Sheep Chase is Murakami at his astounding best.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - a wild sheep chase, a while fantasy
there are many types of people in this world, but this review simplifies them into just two, the ones who love murakami work and the ones who dont. my guess is that there would be a fairly sizable contingent on either side.
others have reviewed the book fairly well. i would like to suggest that you read the first 5 pages of the book, before you decide to buy it. it may save you some money if you are not one of those who love it.
the story of this book if said in a plain ... Read More
Rating:  - A Wild Sheep Chase indeed
Japan, 1978; after a brief introduction of our un-named main character and his own description of a casual fling he had with a former classmate that has recently died we are brought forward 8 years to 1978. Now 29 years old and partner in an add agency. A friend had sent him a postcard with an unusual picture in it and asked that the picture be used in something that would be viewed by a lot of people. What our protagonist doesn't know is that captured in the picture is a sheep that isn't supposed ... Read More
Rating: - Brilliant writing, won over a skeptic
Usually the second something happens in a novel that separates it from reality, whether it is visions of the dead or aliens invading the earth (just to name examples, not that both those things happen in A Wild Sheep Chase) I start to dislike a book. But Murakami's calm, reasoned, well-described mysterious quest on which he sends his main narrator overcomes my usual distrust of the unbelievable in books and I was willing to enjoy and even love the novel despite its slightly fantastical twist(s). ... Read More
Rating: - AWESOME
This is the best Murakami in my opinion and I've read almost all of his work.
Rating: - Metaphysical reality
This story starts with a funeral and ends with a dead person. What a lot happens inbetween. I felt that I was missing something because of all the references to animals: rat, sheep, dorks. It was well written and a very good story. I was taken aback by the final chapters. It was not what I expected at all, and yet it was a really good ending. I guess that it ended with mediocrity winning. That is reality for all of us: we are mediocre, with flashs of excellence. The excellence may be what gets us by, ... Read More
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