Wild Sheep Chase

Wild Sheep Chase

EnglishPaperback / softback
Murakami, Haruki
Vintage Publishing
EAN: 9780099448778
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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 realise 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.

'A Wild Sheep Chase has the conventional hull of a thriller - a quest, a mystery, an extraordinary woman, and plenty of elegant duress - but its fantastic superstructure transforms it into something quite different...a science fiction fantasy, a romance, a metaphysical tease, or a dramatisation of philosophical ideas' Independent

EAN 9780099448778
ISBN 0099448777
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Publication date April 20, 2000
Pages 304
Language English
Dimensions 198 x 129 x 18
Country United Kingdom
Readership General
Authors Murakami, Haruki
Translators Birnbaum, Alfred
Series Rat series