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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.
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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.
“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
"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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- PublisherLondon: Hamish Hamilton
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 024112994X
- ISBN 13 9780241129944
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages299
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Book Description Condition: Fine. First UK Edition, first impression, with printing sequence line '13579108642'. Translated from the original Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum. First published in Japan in 1982. Publisher's black boards with silver gilt lettering to spine. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Octavo. pp. [4], 300. Cover illustration by Mick Brownfield. A book in Fine condition in a Very Good dust-jacket, with some fading to spine, but which is not price-clipped. Seller Inventory # 100663
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Uk edition first impression in near fine condition, not price clipped there is some minimal spotting to page block and first few pages please see pics, no other markings, paypal accepted any questions please ask. Seller Inventory # ABE-6273428803
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. 1st Edition. A very fine first printing having solid sharp corners, having a hint of the usual tanning {normally much heavier}, in a likewise clipped Mick Brownfield dust wrapper. A superb copy without the notorious fading to the spine of wrapper and astonishingly this rare masterpiece appears unread. Haruli Murakami has SIGNED and STAMPED to a Vintage Bookplate which is loose laid in loose laid in for affixing if desired Attractively priced and very scarce to find with these superb attributes. BOXED DESPATCH OVERSEAS AIR ONLY: PLEASE DO NHOT SELECT SURFACE!. Author Signed. Seller Inventory # 002498
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