A Wild Sheep Chase (40 page)

FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, APRIL 2002

Copyright © 1989 by Haruki Murakami

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Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Japanese under the title
Hitsuji o meguru bōken
, by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo, in 1982. This translation first published in the United States by Kodansha International Ltd., New York, in 1989.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Murakami, Haruki, 1949–[Hitsuji o meguru bōken, English]
A wild sheep chase : a novel by Haruki Murakami; translated by Alfred Birnbaum.
p.    cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-76272-6
I. Birnbaum, Alfred. II. Title.
PL856.U673 H5713 2002
895.6’35—dc21
2001045516

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