by Haruki Murakami · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099448778
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«A Wild Sheep Chase» is the mystery and magical realism novel by Haruki Murakami, published by Vintage in paperback (304 pages, in English).
An ordinary man gets caught up in a surreal quest: to find a singular sheep that may control the world. He is joined by eccentric characters, such as a young woman with extraordinary ears, a missing friend, and a professor obsessed with sheep. The novel combines mystery, comedy, and magical realism.
Third novel in Haruki Murakami's «The Rat» series, originally published in 1982 as «Hitsuji o meguru bōken»; English translation by Alfred Birnbaum.
For readers of Haruki Murakami and contemporary Japanese fiction who enjoy stories of mystery and magical realism.
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.
