Author: Murakami Haruki
Translator: Tae-young Shin
Publisher: Munhaksasangsa
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About This Book
Immensely popular in Japan, the author's first novel to be published
here is a comic combination of disparate styles: a mock-hardboiled
mystery, a metaphysical speculation and an ironic first-person account
of an impossible quest.
The narrator is a modern Japanese yuppie: divorced, in a mildly exciting
relationship and a much less exciting job as an ad copywriter, he lives
unexceptionally until a photograph throws his life into chaos. The
snapshot, which he uses to illustrate a newsletter, shows a field of
sheep with one unique crossbreed, and the picture is special enough to
have attracted the attention of both the nomadic friend who sent it to
him and a right-wing Mr. Big who, moribund, wants the source found
before he dies. The Boss's henchman, a sleek, scary majordomo, gives the
narrator one month to track it down, and the story that ensues is a
postmodern detective novel in which dreams, hallucinations and a wild
imagination are more important than actual clues.
About The Author
Born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1949, Haruki Murakami grew up in Kobe and now
lives near Tokyo. The most recent of his many honors is the Yomiuri
Literary Prize, whose previous recipients include Yukio Mishima,
Kenzaburo Oe, and Kobo Abe. His work has been translated into
twenty-seven languages.
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