A Wild Sheep Chase

Author(s): Haruki Murakami

Fiction

The man was leading an aimless life, time passing, one big blank. His girlfriend has perfectly formed ears, ears with the power to bewitch, marvels of creation. The man receives a letter from a friend, enclosing a seemingly innocent photograph of sheep, and a request- place the photograph somewhere it will be seen. Then, one September afternoon, the phone rings, and the adventure begins. Welcome to the wild sheep chase.


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Leave reality behind and enter Murakami's fictional universe where nothing is ever as it seems

Wonderfully easy to read and just as wonderfully difficult to make sense of...like the narrator, who slowly accepts the presence in his life of mystery, we slowly recognize the possibility of a new kind of world. Like him, we lean forward and topple headlong into magic Washington Post It begins as a detective novel, dips into a screwball comedy, and at its close becomes a tale of possession...A highly accomplished piece of craftsmanship New Yorker Mr. Murakami's style and imagination are closer to that of Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Carver and John Irving New York Times A Wild Sheep Chase has the conventional hull of a thriller - a quest, a mystery, an extraordinary woman, and plenty of elegant duress - but its fantastic superstructure transforms it into something quite different...a science fiction fantasy, a romance, a metaphysical tease, or a dramatisation of philosophical ideas Independent If you consider yourself an intelligent, sensitive common reader but wish to accommodate something a little removed from your experience, and probably your imagination, I dare you to turn your eyes towards Murakami and head off on a wild sheep chase. Glasgow Herald

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo.

General Fields

  • : 9780099448778
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : 0.213
  • : March 2003
  • : 198mm X 130mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Haruki Murakami
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 895.6/35
  • : 304
  • : FA