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Hitsuji o meguru bōken

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村上春樹, 村上春樹
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An edition of 羊をめぐる冒険 (1982)

Hitsuji o meguru bōken

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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.

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Kōdansha
Language
Japanese
Pages
405

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Subjects

Japanese fiction, Translations into Russian, Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, psychological, Japan, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, Mystery & crime, World literature

Times

20th century

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1982, Kōdansha
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Tōkyō

Classifications

Library of Congress
PL856.U673 H57 1983, PL856.U673 H57 1983 <Orien Japan>

The Physical Object

Pagination
405 p. ; 20 cm.
Number of pages
405

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3235422M
ISBN 10
4062002418
LCCN
83149162
OCLC/WorldCat
502449137
Library Thing
4987
Goodreads
146927

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