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A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (Vintage International) ペーパーバック – 2002/4/9
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Haruki Murakami
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A New York Times bestselling author—and “a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman” (New York Times Book Review)—delivers a surreal and elaborate quest that takes readers from Tokyo to the remote mountains of northern Japan, where the unnamed protagonist has a surprising confrontation with his demons.
An advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates the image for an advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the 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 who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences.
An advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates the image for an advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the 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 who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences.
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“Murakami is a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman.” —New York Times Book Review
"A delight ... equal parts screwball comedy, detective story, and heroic quest." —USA Today
“A witty adventure ... a piece of verbal anarchy ... a labyrinthine mystery from start to finish.” —San Francisco Chronicle
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"A delight ... equal parts screwball comedy, detective story, and heroic quest." —USA Today
“A witty adventure ... a piece of verbal anarchy ... a labyrinthine mystery from start to finish.” —San Francisco Chronicle
"Marvelously engaging, at turns witty, dry, wicked, even loopy. Reading A Wild Sheep Chase is like spending a splendidly foul weekend with the Four Raymonds—Chandler, Carver, Massey, and Queneau." —Frederick Barthelme
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Part One
November 25, 1970
1
Wednesday Afternoon Picnic
It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition. A friend rang me up and read it to me. Nothing special. Something a rookie reporter fresh out of college might've written for practice.
The date, a street corner, a person driving a truck, a pedestrian, a casualty, an investigation of possible negligence.
Sounded like one of those poems on the inner flap of a magazine.
"Where's the funeral?" I asked.
"You got me," he said. "Did she even have family?"
Of course she had a family.
I called the police department to track down her family's address and telephone number, after which I gave them a call to get details of the funeral.
Her family lived in an old quarter of Tokyo. I got out my map and marked the block in red. There were subway and train and bus lines everywhere, overlapping like some misshapen spiderweb, the whole area a maze of narrow streets and drainage canals.
The day of the funeral, I took a streetcar from Waseda. I got off near the end of the line. The map proved about as helpful as a globe would have been. I ended up buying pack after pack of cigarettes, asking directions each time.
It was a wood-frame house with a brown board fence around it. A small yard, with an abandoned ceramic brazier filled with standing rainwater. The ground was dark and damp.
She'd left home when she was sixteen. Which may have been the reason why the funeral was so somber. Only family present, nearly everyone older. It was presided over by her older brother, barely thirty, or maybe it was her brother-in-law.
Her father, a shortish man in his mid-fifties, wore a black armband of mourning. He stood by the entrance and scarcely moved. Reminded me of a street washed clean after a downpour.
On leaving, I lowered my head in silence, and he lowered his head in return, without a word.
I met her in autumn nine years ago, when I was twenty and she was seventeen.
There was a small coffee shop near the university where I hung out with friends. It wasn't much of anything, but it offered certain constants: hard rock and bad coffee.
She'd always be sitting in the same spot, elbows planted on the table, reading. With her glasses--which resembled orthodontia--and skinny hands, she seemed somehow endearing. Always her coffee would be cold, always her ashtray full of cigarette butts.
The only thing that changed was the book. One time it'd be Mickey Spillane, another time Kenzaburo Oe, another time Allen Ginsberg. Didn't matter what it was, as long as it was a book. The students who drifted in and out of the place would lend her books, and she'd read them clean through, cover to cover. Devour them, like so many ears of corn. In those days, people lent out books as a matter of course, so she never wanted for anything to read.
Those were the days of the Doors, the Stones, the Byrds, Deep Purple, and the Moody Blues. The air was alive, even as everything seemed poised on the verge of collapse, waiting for a push.
She and I would trade books, talk endlessly, drink cheap whiskey, engage in unremarkable sex. You know, the stuff of everyday. Meanwhile, the curtain was creaking down on the shambles of the sixties.
I forget her name.
I could pull out the obituary, but what difference would it make now. I've forgotten her name.
Suppose I meet up with old friends and mid-swing the conversation turns to her. No one ever remembers her name either. Say, back then there was this girl who'd sleep with anyone, you know, what's-her-face, the name escapes me, but I slept with her lots of times, wonder what she's doing now, be funny to run into her on the street.
"Back then, there was this girl who'd sleep with anyone." That's her name.
Of course, strictly speaking, she didn't sleep with just anyone. She had standards.
Still, the fact of the matter is, as any cursory examination of the evidence would suffice to show, that she was quite willing to sleep with almost any guy.
Once, and only once, I asked her about these standards of hers.
"Well, if you must know . . . ," she began. A pensive thirty seconds went by. "It's not like anybody will do. Sometimes the whole idea turns me off. But you know, maybe I want to find out about a lot of different people. Or maybe that's how my world comes together for me."
"By sleeping with someone?"
"Uh-huh."
It was my turn to think things over.
"So tell me, has it helped you make sense of things?"
"A little," she said.
From the winter through the summer I hardly saw her. The university was blockaded and shut down on several occasions, and in any case, I was going through some personal problems of my own.
When I visited the coffee shop again the next autumn, the clientele had completely changed, and she was the only face I recognized. Hard rock was playing as before, but the excitement in the air had vanished. Only she and the bad coffee were the same. I plunked down in the chair opposite her, and we talked about the old crowd.
Most of the guys had dropped out, one had committed suicide, one had buried his tracks. Talk like that.
"What've you been up to this past year?" she asked me.
"Different things," I said.
"Wiser for it?"
"A little."
That night, I slept with her for the first time.
About her background I know almost nothing. What I do know, someone may have told me; maybe it was she herself when we were in bed together. Her first year of high school she had a big falling out with her father and flew the coop (and high school too). I'm pretty sure that's the story. Exactly where she lived, what she did to get by, nobody knew.
She would sit in some rock-music café all day long, drink cup after cup of coffee, chain-smoke, and leaf through books, waiting for someone to come along to foot her coffee and cigarette bills (no mean sum for us types in those days), then typically end up sleeping with the guy.
There. That's everything I know about her.
From the autumn of that year on into the spring of the next, once a week on Tuesday nights, she'd drop in at my apartment outside Mitaka. She'd put away whatever simple dinner I cooked, fill my ashtrays, and have sex with me with the radio tuned full blast to an FEN rock program. Waking up Wednesday mornings, we'd go for a walk through the woods to the ICU campus and have lunch in the dining hall. In the afternoon, we'd have a weak cup of coffee in the student lounge, and if the weather was good, we'd stretch out on the grass and gaze up at the sky.
Our Wednesday afternoon picnic, she called it.
"Everytime we come here, I feel like we're on a picnic."
"Really? A picnic?"
"Well, the grounds go on and on, everyone looks so happy . . ."
She sat up and fumbled through a few matches before lighting a cigarette.
"The sun climbs high in the sky, then starts down. People come, then go. The time breezes by. That's like a picnic, isn't it?"
I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school. Caught in the most curiously depressing circumstances. For months I'd been stuck, unable to take one step in any new direction. The world kept moving on; I alone was at a standstill. In the autumn, everything took on a desolate cast, the colors swiftly fading before my eyes. The sunlight, the smell of the grass, the faintest patter of rain, everything got on my nerves.
How many times did I dream of catching a train at night? Always the same dream. A nightliner stuffy with cigarette smoke and toilet stink. So crowded there was hardly standing room. The seats all caked with vomit. It was all I could do to get up and leave the train at the station. But it was not a station at all. Only an open field, with not a house light anywhere. No stationmaster, no clock, no timetable, no nothing--so went the dream.
I still remember that eerie afternoon. The twenty-fifth of November. Gingko leaves brought down by heavy rains had turned the footpaths into dry riverbeds of gold. She and I were out for a walk, hands in our pockets. Not a sound to be heard except for the crunch of the leaves under our feet and the piercing cries of the birds.
"Just what is it you're brooding over?" she blurted out all of a sudden.
"Nothing really," I said.
She kept walking a bit before sitting down by the side of the path and taking a drag on her cigarette.
"You always have bad dreams?"
"I often have bad dreams. Generally, trauma about vending machines eating my change."
She laughed and put her hand on my knee, but then took it away again.
"You don't want to talk about it, do you?"
"Not today. I'm having trouble talking."
She flicked her half-smoked cigarette to the dirt and carefully ground it out with her shoe. "You can't bring yourself to say what you'd really like to say, isn't that what you mean?"
"I don't know," I said.
Two birds flew off from nearby and were swallowed up into the cloudless sky. We watched them until they were out of sight. Then she began drawing indecipherable patterns in the dirt with a twig.
"Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you."
"I'm sorry I make you feel that way," I said.
"It's not your fault. It's not like you're thinking of some other girl when we're having sex. What difference would that make anyway? It's just that--" She stopped mid-sentence and slowly drew three straight lines on the ground. "Oh, I don't know."
"You know, I never meant to shut you out," I broke in after a moment. "I don't understand what gets into me. I'm trying my damnedest to figure it out. I don't want to blow things out of proportion, but I don't want to pretend they're not there. It takes time."
"How much time?"
"Who knows? Maybe a year, maybe ten."
She tossed the twig to the ground and stood up, brushing the dry bits of grass from her coat. "Ten years? C'mon, isn't that like forever?"
"Maybe," I said.
We walked through the woods to the ICU campus, sat down in the student lounge, and munched on hot dogs. It was two in the afternoon, and Yukio Mishima's picture kept flashing on the lounge TV. The volume control was broken so we could hardly make out what was being said, but it didn't matter to us one way or the other. A student got up on a chair and tried fooling with the volume, but eventually he gave up and wandered off.
"I want you," I said.
"Okay," she said.
So we thrust our hands back into our coat pockets and slowly walked back to the apartment.
I woke up to find her sobbing softly, her slender body trembling under the covers. I turned on the heater and checked the clock. Two in the morning. A startlingly white moon shone in the middle of the sky.
I waited for her to stop crying before putting the kettle on for tea. One teabag for the both of us. No sugar, no lemon, just plain hot tea. Then lighting up two cigarettes, I handed one to her. She inhaled and spat out the smoke, three times in rapid succession, before she broke down coughing.
"Tell me, have you ever thought of killing me?" she asked.
"You?"
"Yeah."
"Why're you asking me such a thing?"
Her cigarette still at her lips, she rubbed her eyelid with her fingertip.
"No special reason."
"No, never," I said.
"Honest?"
"Honest. Why would I want to kill you?"
"Oh, I guess you're right," she said. "I thought for a second there that maybe it wouldn't be so bad to get murdered by someone. Like when I'm sound asleep."
"I'm afraid I'm not the killer type."
"Oh?"
"As far as I know."
She laughed. She put her cigarette out, drank down the rest of her tea, then lit up again.
"I'm going to live to be twenty-five," she said, "then die."
July, eight years later, she was dead at twenty-six.
November 25, 1970
1
Wednesday Afternoon Picnic
It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition. A friend rang me up and read it to me. Nothing special. Something a rookie reporter fresh out of college might've written for practice.
The date, a street corner, a person driving a truck, a pedestrian, a casualty, an investigation of possible negligence.
Sounded like one of those poems on the inner flap of a magazine.
"Where's the funeral?" I asked.
"You got me," he said. "Did she even have family?"
Of course she had a family.
I called the police department to track down her family's address and telephone number, after which I gave them a call to get details of the funeral.
Her family lived in an old quarter of Tokyo. I got out my map and marked the block in red. There were subway and train and bus lines everywhere, overlapping like some misshapen spiderweb, the whole area a maze of narrow streets and drainage canals.
The day of the funeral, I took a streetcar from Waseda. I got off near the end of the line. The map proved about as helpful as a globe would have been. I ended up buying pack after pack of cigarettes, asking directions each time.
It was a wood-frame house with a brown board fence around it. A small yard, with an abandoned ceramic brazier filled with standing rainwater. The ground was dark and damp.
She'd left home when she was sixteen. Which may have been the reason why the funeral was so somber. Only family present, nearly everyone older. It was presided over by her older brother, barely thirty, or maybe it was her brother-in-law.
Her father, a shortish man in his mid-fifties, wore a black armband of mourning. He stood by the entrance and scarcely moved. Reminded me of a street washed clean after a downpour.
On leaving, I lowered my head in silence, and he lowered his head in return, without a word.
I met her in autumn nine years ago, when I was twenty and she was seventeen.
There was a small coffee shop near the university where I hung out with friends. It wasn't much of anything, but it offered certain constants: hard rock and bad coffee.
She'd always be sitting in the same spot, elbows planted on the table, reading. With her glasses--which resembled orthodontia--and skinny hands, she seemed somehow endearing. Always her coffee would be cold, always her ashtray full of cigarette butts.
The only thing that changed was the book. One time it'd be Mickey Spillane, another time Kenzaburo Oe, another time Allen Ginsberg. Didn't matter what it was, as long as it was a book. The students who drifted in and out of the place would lend her books, and she'd read them clean through, cover to cover. Devour them, like so many ears of corn. In those days, people lent out books as a matter of course, so she never wanted for anything to read.
Those were the days of the Doors, the Stones, the Byrds, Deep Purple, and the Moody Blues. The air was alive, even as everything seemed poised on the verge of collapse, waiting for a push.
She and I would trade books, talk endlessly, drink cheap whiskey, engage in unremarkable sex. You know, the stuff of everyday. Meanwhile, the curtain was creaking down on the shambles of the sixties.
I forget her name.
I could pull out the obituary, but what difference would it make now. I've forgotten her name.
Suppose I meet up with old friends and mid-swing the conversation turns to her. No one ever remembers her name either. Say, back then there was this girl who'd sleep with anyone, you know, what's-her-face, the name escapes me, but I slept with her lots of times, wonder what she's doing now, be funny to run into her on the street.
"Back then, there was this girl who'd sleep with anyone." That's her name.
Of course, strictly speaking, she didn't sleep with just anyone. She had standards.
Still, the fact of the matter is, as any cursory examination of the evidence would suffice to show, that she was quite willing to sleep with almost any guy.
Once, and only once, I asked her about these standards of hers.
"Well, if you must know . . . ," she began. A pensive thirty seconds went by. "It's not like anybody will do. Sometimes the whole idea turns me off. But you know, maybe I want to find out about a lot of different people. Or maybe that's how my world comes together for me."
"By sleeping with someone?"
"Uh-huh."
It was my turn to think things over.
"So tell me, has it helped you make sense of things?"
"A little," she said.
From the winter through the summer I hardly saw her. The university was blockaded and shut down on several occasions, and in any case, I was going through some personal problems of my own.
When I visited the coffee shop again the next autumn, the clientele had completely changed, and she was the only face I recognized. Hard rock was playing as before, but the excitement in the air had vanished. Only she and the bad coffee were the same. I plunked down in the chair opposite her, and we talked about the old crowd.
Most of the guys had dropped out, one had committed suicide, one had buried his tracks. Talk like that.
"What've you been up to this past year?" she asked me.
"Different things," I said.
"Wiser for it?"
"A little."
That night, I slept with her for the first time.
About her background I know almost nothing. What I do know, someone may have told me; maybe it was she herself when we were in bed together. Her first year of high school she had a big falling out with her father and flew the coop (and high school too). I'm pretty sure that's the story. Exactly where she lived, what she did to get by, nobody knew.
She would sit in some rock-music café all day long, drink cup after cup of coffee, chain-smoke, and leaf through books, waiting for someone to come along to foot her coffee and cigarette bills (no mean sum for us types in those days), then typically end up sleeping with the guy.
There. That's everything I know about her.
From the autumn of that year on into the spring of the next, once a week on Tuesday nights, she'd drop in at my apartment outside Mitaka. She'd put away whatever simple dinner I cooked, fill my ashtrays, and have sex with me with the radio tuned full blast to an FEN rock program. Waking up Wednesday mornings, we'd go for a walk through the woods to the ICU campus and have lunch in the dining hall. In the afternoon, we'd have a weak cup of coffee in the student lounge, and if the weather was good, we'd stretch out on the grass and gaze up at the sky.
Our Wednesday afternoon picnic, she called it.
"Everytime we come here, I feel like we're on a picnic."
"Really? A picnic?"
"Well, the grounds go on and on, everyone looks so happy . . ."
She sat up and fumbled through a few matches before lighting a cigarette.
"The sun climbs high in the sky, then starts down. People come, then go. The time breezes by. That's like a picnic, isn't it?"
I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school. Caught in the most curiously depressing circumstances. For months I'd been stuck, unable to take one step in any new direction. The world kept moving on; I alone was at a standstill. In the autumn, everything took on a desolate cast, the colors swiftly fading before my eyes. The sunlight, the smell of the grass, the faintest patter of rain, everything got on my nerves.
How many times did I dream of catching a train at night? Always the same dream. A nightliner stuffy with cigarette smoke and toilet stink. So crowded there was hardly standing room. The seats all caked with vomit. It was all I could do to get up and leave the train at the station. But it was not a station at all. Only an open field, with not a house light anywhere. No stationmaster, no clock, no timetable, no nothing--so went the dream.
I still remember that eerie afternoon. The twenty-fifth of November. Gingko leaves brought down by heavy rains had turned the footpaths into dry riverbeds of gold. She and I were out for a walk, hands in our pockets. Not a sound to be heard except for the crunch of the leaves under our feet and the piercing cries of the birds.
"Just what is it you're brooding over?" she blurted out all of a sudden.
"Nothing really," I said.
She kept walking a bit before sitting down by the side of the path and taking a drag on her cigarette.
"You always have bad dreams?"
"I often have bad dreams. Generally, trauma about vending machines eating my change."
She laughed and put her hand on my knee, but then took it away again.
"You don't want to talk about it, do you?"
"Not today. I'm having trouble talking."
She flicked her half-smoked cigarette to the dirt and carefully ground it out with her shoe. "You can't bring yourself to say what you'd really like to say, isn't that what you mean?"
"I don't know," I said.
Two birds flew off from nearby and were swallowed up into the cloudless sky. We watched them until they were out of sight. Then she began drawing indecipherable patterns in the dirt with a twig.
"Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you."
"I'm sorry I make you feel that way," I said.
"It's not your fault. It's not like you're thinking of some other girl when we're having sex. What difference would that make anyway? It's just that--" She stopped mid-sentence and slowly drew three straight lines on the ground. "Oh, I don't know."
"You know, I never meant to shut you out," I broke in after a moment. "I don't understand what gets into me. I'm trying my damnedest to figure it out. I don't want to blow things out of proportion, but I don't want to pretend they're not there. It takes time."
"How much time?"
"Who knows? Maybe a year, maybe ten."
She tossed the twig to the ground and stood up, brushing the dry bits of grass from her coat. "Ten years? C'mon, isn't that like forever?"
"Maybe," I said.
We walked through the woods to the ICU campus, sat down in the student lounge, and munched on hot dogs. It was two in the afternoon, and Yukio Mishima's picture kept flashing on the lounge TV. The volume control was broken so we could hardly make out what was being said, but it didn't matter to us one way or the other. A student got up on a chair and tried fooling with the volume, but eventually he gave up and wandered off.
"I want you," I said.
"Okay," she said.
So we thrust our hands back into our coat pockets and slowly walked back to the apartment.
I woke up to find her sobbing softly, her slender body trembling under the covers. I turned on the heater and checked the clock. Two in the morning. A startlingly white moon shone in the middle of the sky.
I waited for her to stop crying before putting the kettle on for tea. One teabag for the both of us. No sugar, no lemon, just plain hot tea. Then lighting up two cigarettes, I handed one to her. She inhaled and spat out the smoke, three times in rapid succession, before she broke down coughing.
"Tell me, have you ever thought of killing me?" she asked.
"You?"
"Yeah."
"Why're you asking me such a thing?"
Her cigarette still at her lips, she rubbed her eyelid with her fingertip.
"No special reason."
"No, never," I said.
"Honest?"
"Honest. Why would I want to kill you?"
"Oh, I guess you're right," she said. "I thought for a second there that maybe it wouldn't be so bad to get murdered by someone. Like when I'm sound asleep."
"I'm afraid I'm not the killer type."
"Oh?"
"As far as I know."
She laughed. She put her cigarette out, drank down the rest of her tea, then lit up again.
"I'm going to live to be twenty-five," she said, "then die."
July, eight years later, she was dead at twenty-six.
著者について
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 more than fifty languages.
登録情報
- 出版社 : Vintage; Reprint版 (2002/4/9)
- 発売日 : 2002/4/9
- 言語 : 英語
- ペーパーバック : 368ページ
- ISBN-10 : 037571894X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0375718946
- 寸法 : 13.18 x 2.11 x 20.32 cm
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1949(昭和24)年、京都府生れ。早稲田大学文学部卒業。
1979年、『風の歌を聴け』でデビュー、群像新人文学賞受賞。主著に『羊をめぐる冒険』(野間文芸新人賞)、『世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド』(谷崎潤一郎賞受賞)、『ねじまき鳥クロニクル』(読売文学賞)、『ノルウェイの森』、『アンダーグラウンド』、『スプートニクの恋人』、『神の子どもたちはみな踊る』、『海辺のカフカ』、『アフターダーク』など。『レイモンド・カーヴァー全集』、『心臓を貫かれて』、『キャッチャー・イン・ザ・ライ』、『ロング・グッドバイ』など訳書も多数。
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ゆっくりとできるときに、ちょっとずつ聞いてます。
音読だとこうなるのかと思いながら。
音読だとこうなるのかと思いながら。
2017年2月4日に日本でレビュー済み
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A masterpiece. You will start to see things differently, everything actually, as you start to read this book. I never wanted the adventure to finish. Read it to get meaningful encounters everyday of your life.
2018年7月5日に日本でレビュー済み
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the book was in good condition when we received it.
2018年12月11日に日本でレビュー済み
主人公の声としてはいいんだけど、女の声色は気持ち悪い。共同経営者はなんであんなにヒステリックなしゃべり方にしたんだろう。ねずみの声も違和感ありだ。運転手の話し方は割とよかった。台詞の多い人物はナレーターを変えた方がいいと思う。せめて女性の声は女性ナレーターにやってもほしい。
2021年3月12日に日本でレビュー済み
村上さんの初期の作品ですが、今読んでも素晴らしく、読みごたえがありました。
ここで登場する「羊」とはいったい何の比喩なのか、読者としての私は自分の中の「羊」といかに折り合いをつければよいのか、改めていろいろと思いを巡らせました(名前も「三羊」ですし)。
英文もとても美しく、こういうことを言いたい時にはこういう風に表現すればいいのかと思うことが多かったです。「こんな表現をいつかは使えるようになりたい」といつも思うのですが・・・。
以下、英語の教材としての感想です。
音読の速さ ☆☆☆/5段階
音の聞き取りやすさ ☆☆☆☆/5段階 (きれいな発音ですが、音の省略は普通にされています)
単語の難しさ ☆☆☆/5段階(単語の問題ではなく、比喩的な表現など小難しい表現が多少あり、その辺りは読み取りが難しく感じました)
一人でいろいろな人物の声をこなすのは相当難しいことなのだろうと思い、敬意を表しますが、登場人物ごとに声優さんを変えるという訳には行かないのでしょうか?他のレビュアーも書かれていましたが、女性の登場人物まで同じ声優さんが担当するのはちょっと無理があるように思います。
ここで登場する「羊」とはいったい何の比喩なのか、読者としての私は自分の中の「羊」といかに折り合いをつければよいのか、改めていろいろと思いを巡らせました(名前も「三羊」ですし)。
英文もとても美しく、こういうことを言いたい時にはこういう風に表現すればいいのかと思うことが多かったです。「こんな表現をいつかは使えるようになりたい」といつも思うのですが・・・。
以下、英語の教材としての感想です。
音読の速さ ☆☆☆/5段階
音の聞き取りやすさ ☆☆☆☆/5段階 (きれいな発音ですが、音の省略は普通にされています)
単語の難しさ ☆☆☆/5段階(単語の問題ではなく、比喩的な表現など小難しい表現が多少あり、その辺りは読み取りが難しく感じました)
一人でいろいろな人物の声をこなすのは相当難しいことなのだろうと思い、敬意を表しますが、登場人物ごとに声優さんを変えるという訳には行かないのでしょうか?他のレビュアーも書かれていましたが、女性の登場人物まで同じ声優さんが担当するのはちょっと無理があるように思います。
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もういちど読みたくなって8円の中古本を買ったのですが、とても綺麗な本でした。
2010年12月15日に日本でレビュー済み
I am no book worm, and i do not have much to compare this novel with. But yet i say, that this is probably the weirdest book i have ever encountered within my entire minuscule lifetime. Absolutely fascinating.
This book, will start radiating magnetic waves towards you once you flip open that cover. Beware, i assure you. You are about to encounter, a fully new dimension (at least that was my case) of mindset here. I myself am still boggled by this story despite the years that have ever since yet past.
This book, will start radiating magnetic waves towards you once you flip open that cover. Beware, i assure you. You are about to encounter, a fully new dimension (at least that was my case) of mindset here. I myself am still boggled by this story despite the years that have ever since yet past.
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Serena
5つ星のうち5.0
Not for Everybody
2023年8月13日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
I like Japanese novels, but you have to be willing to suspend reality and live in the world in the book. In The Wild Sheep Chase I had to believe a young man could be so placid, loyal and willing to give-up everything to go on a strange adventure--even his nameless cat.
It took me awhile to like this book and frankly, I never did understand it. Still, I ended-up loving it, but I can't tell you why. It's silly and weird, but that's what I like about most Japanese novels. I liked it so much I ended-up ordering the other Rat book.
It took me awhile to like this book and frankly, I never did understand it. Still, I ended-up loving it, but I can't tell you why. It's silly and weird, but that's what I like about most Japanese novels. I liked it so much I ended-up ordering the other Rat book.
Abhimanyu
5つ星のうち5.0
Fresh and Fun
2021年10月23日にイタリアでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
The style of writing reminds me of catch22. You don’t realise how the plot moves swiftly even though all the mundane things explained with all the time in the world. Feels like Written with a relaxed mind and restless soul.
Keith Crawford
5つ星のうち5.0
Remarkable, Unique, Bizarre
2021年8月23日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Our protagonist’s life has ground to his halt: his wife has divorced him after having an affair, his business is grinding to a halt as the friend with whom he founded it steadily succumbs to alcoholism, and his best friend Rat disappeared years ago – only occasionally sending bizarre, non-sequitur letters containing money or more recently a picture of some sheep.
This picture becomes important, however, because it contains the image of a sheep with the mark of a star – a sheep that is of great interest to the shadowy right-wing organisation that have controlled Japan for years. An organisation that will pay him a great deal of money to find that sheep – or destroy him if he does not.
Spurred on by his new girlfriend and her magical ears, this man with no motivation finds himself on a quest to find a single lost sheep on a mountainside in a country full of mountains. What he finds will make all that seem relatively normal.
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What an exceptional book. To start off with it feels like a combination of the surreal humour of Douglas Adam’s Holistic Detective Agency combined with the magical reality of good Rushdie. But this is entirely its own creature. The translation is marvellous and the prose pure poetry – although the author seems to be obsessed with the main characters liquid consumption and expulsion! Plus, the smoking. Never has a book with so many cigarette breaks been so readable.
I’m relatively new to Japanese literature – I’ve only read a dozen or so books (although naturally far more manga and all the Final Fantasy computer games!) – but there does seem to be a certain melancholy that keeps cropping up. Murakami makes the mundane interesting, the simple beautiful, and never lets the sadness drag the book down - far from it, I had to fight the temptation to skip to the last ten pages to find out how things worked out. But it is sad. Some things that are lost are never found. Some things that are found stay lost.
This book does an exquisite job of showing sadness. I can’t wait to read more of his work.
This picture becomes important, however, because it contains the image of a sheep with the mark of a star – a sheep that is of great interest to the shadowy right-wing organisation that have controlled Japan for years. An organisation that will pay him a great deal of money to find that sheep – or destroy him if he does not.
Spurred on by his new girlfriend and her magical ears, this man with no motivation finds himself on a quest to find a single lost sheep on a mountainside in a country full of mountains. What he finds will make all that seem relatively normal.
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What an exceptional book. To start off with it feels like a combination of the surreal humour of Douglas Adam’s Holistic Detective Agency combined with the magical reality of good Rushdie. But this is entirely its own creature. The translation is marvellous and the prose pure poetry – although the author seems to be obsessed with the main characters liquid consumption and expulsion! Plus, the smoking. Never has a book with so many cigarette breaks been so readable.
I’m relatively new to Japanese literature – I’ve only read a dozen or so books (although naturally far more manga and all the Final Fantasy computer games!) – but there does seem to be a certain melancholy that keeps cropping up. Murakami makes the mundane interesting, the simple beautiful, and never lets the sadness drag the book down - far from it, I had to fight the temptation to skip to the last ten pages to find out how things worked out. But it is sad. Some things that are lost are never found. Some things that are found stay lost.
This book does an exquisite job of showing sadness. I can’t wait to read more of his work.
Keith Crawford
2021年8月23日に英国でレビュー済み
This picture becomes important, however, because it contains the image of a sheep with the mark of a star – a sheep that is of great interest to the shadowy right-wing organisation that have controlled Japan for years. An organisation that will pay him a great deal of money to find that sheep – or destroy him if he does not.
Spurred on by his new girlfriend and her magical ears, this man with no motivation finds himself on a quest to find a single lost sheep on a mountainside in a country full of mountains. What he finds will make all that seem relatively normal.
[MORE]
What an exceptional book. To start off with it feels like a combination of the surreal humour of Douglas Adam’s Holistic Detective Agency combined with the magical reality of good Rushdie. But this is entirely its own creature. The translation is marvellous and the prose pure poetry – although the author seems to be obsessed with the main characters liquid consumption and expulsion! Plus, the smoking. Never has a book with so many cigarette breaks been so readable.
I’m relatively new to Japanese literature – I’ve only read a dozen or so books (although naturally far more manga and all the Final Fantasy computer games!) – but there does seem to be a certain melancholy that keeps cropping up. Murakami makes the mundane interesting, the simple beautiful, and never lets the sadness drag the book down - far from it, I had to fight the temptation to skip to the last ten pages to find out how things worked out. But it is sad. Some things that are lost are never found. Some things that are found stay lost.
This book does an exquisite job of showing sadness. I can’t wait to read more of his work.
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Sally
5つ星のうち2.0
creased and folded
2021年1月2日にオランダでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
havent read the book yet but it came with creases in the book spine and a light fold on the cover.
R. Levesque
5つ星のうち5.0
Bought these copies for friends because...
2018年8月1日にカナダでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Proud to say I first read A Wild Sheep Chase back around the late '80s before Murakami was famous, and now I recommend it to others as the best place to start if you're curious about this celebrated author. It has many of the motifs that have become mainstays of his novels such as a mystery, a quest, pop culture references, oddly metaphysical encounters and suggestions of an alternate reality. In fact, you might call it a metaphysical detective story. While Murakami wrote several works beforehand (Hear The Wind Sing, Pinball, Norwegian Wood), in my opinion this was his first real mature work, exhibiting the matter of fact economy of style that has won him so many fans. Some should be warned, like a few other Murakami works it ends in an ambiguous fashion, but that's part of what keeps you thinking years afterwards. Enjoy.