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A Wild Sheep Chase : A Novel by Haruki Murakami & Alfred Birnbaum [Murakami, Haruki & Birnbaum, Alfred] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, <b>A Wild Sheep Chase</b><i> </i>is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami&#8217;s international reputation. <p>It begins simply enough&#58; A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company&#8217;s advertisement. What he doesn&#8217;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&#58; 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, <b>A Wild Sheep Chase </b>is Murakami at his astounding best.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Immensely popular in Japan, the author's first novel to be published here is a comic combination of disparate styles: a mock-hardboiled mystery, a metaphysical

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Author

Haruki Murakami & Alfred Birnbaum [Murakami, Haruki & Birnbaum, Alfred]

Publisher

Vintage; Vintage Books

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307267016

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Mystery, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.94 / 5 (56,601 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14