A Wild Sheep Chase
(Sprache: Englisch)
Leave reality behind and enter Murakami's fictional universe where nothing is ever as it seems
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Leave reality behind and enter Murakami's fictional universe where nothing is ever as it seems
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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 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. Quirky and utterly captivating, A Wild Sheep Chase is Murakami at his astounding best.
Autoren-Porträt von Haruki Murakami
Autoren-Porträtvon Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami, 1949 in Kyoto geboren, ist einer derwichtigsten Schriftsteller der Gegenwart. Sein Roman "GefährlicheGeliebte" entzweite das Literarische Quartett, mit "MisterAufziehvogel" schrieb er das Kultbuch seiner Generation. Er lebte überlängere Zeit in Europa und in den USA. Murakami ist der international gefeierteund mit den höchsten japanischen Literaturpreisen ausgezeichnete Autorzahlreicher Romane und Erzählungen. Er hat die Werke von Raymond Chandler, JohnIrving, Truman Capote und Raymond Carver ins Japanische übersetzt.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Haruki Murakami
- 2000, 304 Seiten, Maße: 13 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzer: Alfred Birnbaum
- Verlag: Vintage, London
- ISBN-10: 0099448777
- ISBN-13: 9780099448778
- Erscheinungsdatum: 20.04.2000
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Wonderfully easy to read and just as wonderfully difficult to make sense of...like the narrator, who slowly accepts the presence in his life of mystery, we slowly recognize the possibility of a new kind of world. Like him, we lean forward and topple headlong into magic" Washington Post "It begins as a detective novel, dips into a screwball comedy, and at its close becomes a tale of possession...A highly accomplished piece of craftsmanship" New Yorker "Mr. Murakami's style and imagination are closer to that of Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Carver and John Irving" New York Times "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 "If you consider yourself an intelligent, sensitive common reader but wish to accommodate something a little removed from your experience, and probably your imagination, I dare you to turn your eyes towards Murakami and head off on a wild sheep chase." Glasgow Herald
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Wonderfully easy to read and just as wonderfully difficult to make sense of...like the narrator, who slowly accepts the presence in his life of mystery, we slowly recognize the possibility of a new kind of world. Like him, we lean forward and topple headlong into magic Washington Post
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