Beschreibung
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.
| EAN: | 9780099448778 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 20.04.2000 |
| Produktform: | Kartoniert |
| Autoren: | Murakami, Haruki |
| Übersetzung: | Birnbaum, Alfred |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 299 |
| Themenüberschrift: | FICTION / Action & Adventure |
| Keyword: | japan; japanese novels; japanese books; the travelling cat chronicles; translated; norwegian wood; the wind up bird chronicle; kafka on the shore; 1q84; anthology; before the coffee gets cold toshikazu kawaguchi; klara and the sun kazuo ishiguro; human acts han kang; superheroes; future noir; fiction books; fiction; action |
| Fachschema: | Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Japan / Roman, Erzählung, Humor~Japanische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung |
| Fachkategorie: | Magischer Realismus~Belletristik in Übersetzung~Abenteuerromane~Science-Fiction, Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik |
| Region: | Japan |
| Imprint-Titels: | Vintage Books |
| Verkauf Verboten: | |
| Text Sprache: | eng |
| Originalsprache: | jpn |
| Verlag: | Random House UK Ltd |
| Länge: | 198 mm |
| Breite: | 130 mm |
| Höhe: | 22 mm |
| Gewicht: | 222 gr |
| Genre: | Importe |
| Herkunftsland: | GROSSBRITANNIEN (GB) |