A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (713 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 037571894X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 353 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. Quirky and utterly captivating, A Wild Sheep Chase is Murakami at his astounding best.. 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. 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. A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chaseis the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami’s international reputation
The snapshot, which he uses to illustrate a newsletter, shows a field of sheep with one unique crossbreed, and the picture is special enough to have attracted the attention of both the nomadic friend who sent it to him and a right-wing Mr. The narrator is a modern Japanese yuppie: divorced, in a mildly exciting relationship and a much less exciting job as an ad copywriter, he lives unexceptionally until a photograph throws his life into chaos. With the help of a fluid, slangy translation, Murakami emerges as a wholly original talent. The Boss's henchman, a sleek, scary majordomo, gives the narrator one month to track it down, and the story t
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 Amazon Customer When you try hard make sure your reader know how intellectual you are well, not my thing :). It reminded me of the feel of writers in Rome around 400 AD. Lacks emotion, passion, or purpose. Relationships are similar to getting enough water in the day. As always, I find gems in most everything I read. But compared to the great ShÃ
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Â, this book was very disappointing.I loved the idea, the plot, but the relational void left me unsatisfied. How one finishes is so powerful. Like Umberto Eco's, The name of the Rose, the ending was . 00 AD. Lacks emotion, passion, or purpose. Relationships are similar to getting enough water in the day. As always, I find gems in most everything I read. But compared to the great ShÃ
«saku EndÃ
Â, this book was very disappointing.I loved the idea, the plot, but the relational void left me unsatisfied. How one finishes is so powerful. Like Umberto Eco's, The name of the Rose, the ending was . Gioraku said Though he has some detractors (what writer hasn't? ). Though he has some detractors (what writer hasn't?), Haruki Murakami 's oeuvre is of such high quality (indeed, the highest), that it may seem presumptuous to offer critical evaluation of his books at this place in such a limited space. Murakami has succeeded in combining literary depth with thrilling attractiveness in his narratives, in addition to linguistic beauty (this refers to the English translation), humane warmth and universal goodwill. In conclusion, suffice it to say that this reader, aside from being a dedicated Murakami fan, is also . Unusual and compelling Amazon Customer I didn't know what to expect other than I read another Murakami book and was very impressed by the mix of the pedestrian and the fantastic. This one wasn't an exception, and kept me guessing what could happen next and delivered until the last line, something that very few books do nowadays. Each character is very vivid and end up being almost like friends one would want to see again.