A Wild Sheep Chase

from MellowOwl

A well-written existential noir. A little slow going at first, but builds into a beautiful and brilliant finale. I enjoyed it more than its sequel "Dance, Dance, Dance", but not more than Murakami's more acclaimed works like "Norwegian Wood" and "Kafka on the Shore". A solid addition to Murakami'...

from Isgodchekhov

I kept thinking something was missing from the book a day after I had completed reading it...Granted, there were other distractions going on in this narrative to keep my figurative head on a swivel, but besides the engaging storyline, ambiguous animal referents, cool aphorisms etc...It occurred t...

from MellowOwl

A well-written existential noir. A little slow going at first, but builds into a beautiful and brilliant finale. I enjoyed it more than its sequel "Dance, Dance, Dance", but not more than Murakami's more acclaimed works like "Norwegian Wood" and "Kafka on the Shore". A solid addition to Murakami'...

from xuebi

In A Wild Sheep Chase, the nameless protagonist and his girlfriend with extraordinarily charistmatic ears embark on a quest to find a mysterious sheep with a star on its back. The quest leads the protagonist from Tokyo to Sapporo, whereupon all manner of bizarre and unique characters intervene to...

from lmckend

Its hard to explain how this book succeeds. Rather than enjoying the book as a whole it perhaps best to read it as a series of loosely interwoven short stories or episodes with the sheep chase running through as a unifying theme. The initial scene is set with a brief description of the main chara...