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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.
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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 realise 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.
'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
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Produktdetails
Erscheinungsdatum
20. April 2000
Sprache
englisch
Seitenanzahl
299
Reihe
Rat series, 3
Autor/Autorin
Haruki Murakami
Übersetzung
Alfred Birnbaum
Verlag/Hersteller
Originaltitel
Originalsprache
japanisch
Produktart
kartoniert
Gewicht
222 g
Größe (L/B/H)
198/130/22 mm
Sonstiges
B-Format
ISBN
9780099448778
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Pressestimmen
"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