A wild sheep chase / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum

By:

Murakami, Haruki [author]

Contributor(s):

Birnbaum, Alfred [translator]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Vintage, 2003Description: 299 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0099448777

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Detective and mystery fiction

DDC classification:

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Cubao Branch Fiction Area	Fiction	Fic M972w 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	115371d

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.

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