Haruki Murakami: A Wild Sheep Chase
A Wild Sheep Chase
Buch
- Originaltitel: Hitsuji o meguru boken
- Übersetzung: Alfred Birnbaum
- Random House UK Ltd, 04/2000
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780099448778
- Bestellnummer: 2149920
- Umfang: 299 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr: 2003
- Gewicht: 222 g
- Maße: 198 x 130 mm
- Stärke: 22 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 20.4.2000
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Kurzbeschreibung
Haruki Murakamis meisterhafter Bestseller um ein Schaf mit übernatürlichen Kräften, ein Teilzeit-Callgirl mit den schönsten Ohren der Welt und einen Kriegsverbrecher mit Gehirntumor ist ein fantastischer Detektivroman, inspiriert von den düsteren Werken Raymond Chandlers nur dass dieser Fall unlösbar ist. Der Geschichtenzauberer Murakami entführt in eine Welt voll bizarrer Geheimnisse, in der Realität und Fantasie zu einem virtuosen Abenteuer verschmelzen. Leave reality behind and enter Murakami's fictional universe where nothing is ever as it seemsBeschreibung
His life was like his recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere. But an ordinary life has a way of taking an extraordinary turn. Add a girl whose ears are so exquisite that, when uncovered, they improve sex a thousand-fold, a runaway friend, a right-wing politico, an ovine-obsessed professor and a manic-depressive in a sheep outfit, implicate them in a hunt for a sheep, that may or may not be running the world, and the upshot is another singular masterpiece from Japan's finest novelist.Rezension
"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 PostKlappentext
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.
