Book 1st edition. 2nd printing. Hardbound in unclipped dust jacket. Minor wear to dust jacket edges, otherwise very good.

Book 1st edition. 2nd printing. Hardbound in unclipped dust jacket. Minor wear to dust jacket edges, otherwise very good.

Book is in good condition and may include underlining highlighting and

Book is in good condition and may include underlining highlighting and minimal wear. The book can also include From the library of labels. May not contain miscellaneous items toys dvds etc. We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service.

Tokyo. 1989. Kodansha. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket.

Tokyo. 1989. Kodansha. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0870119052. Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum. 299 pages. hardcover. Front-of-jacket illustration by Shigeo Okamoto. keywords: Asia Japan Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION-With the publication of A Wild Sheep Chase, readers in the West will be introduced to the prodigious talents of Haruki Murakami, the leading novelist of modern Japan. Murakami has been lauded by Japanese critics and readers alike, hailed as the distinctive voice of a new generation. It is a voice that read-cr5, literally in the millions, have given themselves over to, a voice the likes of which no Western reader of Japanese fiction will have encountered before. The time is now. The setting is Japan-minus the kimono and the impenetrable mystique of an exotic, distant culture. The narrator, identified only by a pronoun, is on principle an ordinary fellow. Thirty years old, he has more intelligence than an overachieving businessman, but no ambition and little purpose. Enter into his lackluster life a young woman, apparently ordinary as well but with ears so gorgeous that all conversation stops in the presence of their unveiling; a right-wing boss with a golfball-sized blood cyst in his brain who's unaccountably been spared standing trial as a Class A war criminal; a sinister, all-efficient lieutenant with beautiful hands and a degree from Stanford; and a brilliant professor permanently sidetracked by an animal experience that in forty-two years has not dimmed in significance. Inexorably, all are impelled into the bizarre pursuit 4 of a dream-induced sheep. But this is no ordinary sheep. With a star on its back, eyes as clear as spring water, and a near-irresistible spiritual allure, the sheep embodies a perverse Nietzschean will to absolute power. The pursuit of this fantastic supersheep begins in the urban haunts of Tokyo, continues at a garish suburban estate, and culminates in the lonely mountainous snow country of Hokkaido. Here, in Haruki Murakami's dazzling debut in the West, is a feat of the imagination, a tale-not easily forgotten-of enchantment, suspense, and human mystery. inventory #13176.