[英文原版]A Wild Sheep Chase/HarukiMurakami ISBN:9780099448778 His lifewas like his recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere. But anordinary life has a way of taking an extraordinary turn. Add a girlwhose ears are so exquisite that, when uncovered, they improve sexa thousand-fold, a runaway friend, a right-wing politico, anovine-obsessed professor and a manic-depressive in a sheep outfit,implicate them in a hunt for a sheep, that may or may not berunning the world, and the upshot is another singular masterpiecefrom Japan's finest novelist. 显示全部信息 商品详情
His lifewas like his recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere. But anordinary life has a way of taking an extraordinary turn. Add a girlwhose ears are so exquisite that, when uncovered, they improve sexa thousand-fold, a runaway friend, a right-wing politico, anovine-obsessed professor and a manic-depressive in a sheep outfit,implicate them in a hunt for a sheep, that may or may not berunning the world, and the upshot is another singular masterpiecefrom Japan's finest novelist.
Immenselypopular in Japan, the author's first novel to be published here isa comic combination of disparate styles: a mock-hardboiled mystery,a metaphysical speculation and an ironic first-person account of animpossible quest. The narrator is a modern Japanese yuppie:divorced, in a mildly exciting relationship and a much lessexciting job as an ad copywriter, he lives unexceptionally until aphotograph throws his life into chaos. The snapshot, which he usesto illustrate a newsletter, shows a field of sheep with one uniquecrossbreed, and the picture is special enough to have attracted theattention of both the nomadic friend who sent it to him and aright-wing Mr. Big who, moribund, wants the source found before hedies. The Boss's henchman, a sleek, scary majordomo, gives thenarrator one month to track it down, and the story that ensues is apostmodern detective novel in which dreams, hallucinations and awild imagination are more important than actual clues. With thehelp of a fluid, slangy translation, Murakami emerges as a whollyoriginal talent. $30,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild and DoubledayBook Club alternates.
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