Name: A Wild Sheep Chase
SKU: 3356754
Price: 14.76 EUR
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Author: Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 9780099448778

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Physical Book

Author

Haruki Murakami

Publisher

Vintage

Synopsis "A Wild Sheep Chase "

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

Haruki Murakami

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(Kyoto, 1949) is one of the few Japanese authors who have made the leap from prestigious writer to best-selling author worldwide. He has received numerous awards, including the Noma, the Tanizaki, the Yomiuri, the Franz Kafka, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Hans Christian Andersen, and his name is repeatedly mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In Spain, he has earned the Archbishop Juan de San Clemente Award, the Order of Arts and Letters, awarded by the Spanish Government, the International Catalonia Prize 2011, and the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature 2023. Additionally, he is a marathon runner, triathlete, music lover, adores kittens, and greatly enjoys American literature.

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