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A Wild Sheep Chase

By: Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum
Narrated by: Dexter Galang
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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 20-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.

©1982 Haruki Murakami (P)2020 Penguin Audio Action & Adventure Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Magical Realism Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Thriller & Suspense World Literature Fiction

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"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)
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Surprises at every turn. Is it because I am a westerner? Not sure, very enjoyable not having a clue most of the time where the story is going.

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this is possibly worse than convince store woman. it's a rambling nonsensical mess. can't compare it with windup bird or Norwegian wood. or Kafka. this seems like it was from a different author.

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