A Wild Sheep Chase, Haruki Murakami
A Wild Sheep Chase, Haruki Murakami
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A Wild Sheep Chase

Author: Haruki Murakami

Narrator: Rupert Degas

Unabridged: 9 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/06/2013

Synopsis

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.

About The Author

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than forty languages, and the most recent of his many international honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V. S. Naipaul.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jaci on April 01, 2008

A Wild Sheep Chase was the third book that I have read by Murakami. I found out after I finished that it is that third book in "The Trilogy of the Rat". The first two books in this series are now out of print, but after reading A Wild Sheep Chase, I think I have to chase down some used copies of the......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on June 04, 2024

A play on the old saying ‘a wild goose chase', I'm afraid this book reads more like another old saying, ‘a complete waste of time’. It felt to me that a random series of events had been linked together to form a very loose and aimless narrative. I really had no idea what was going on or what I’m sup......more

Goodreads review by Shawn on October 16, 2022

can’t wait to read more from him…. Norwegian Wood still not good tho🤣......more

Goodreads review by Kay on September 28, 2021

Was this a good book? Hell yes Was this Murakami's best? No, but he does hold high standards for himself. Did I enjoy it? Absolutely Was I confused since I read the third in this series first? Definitely, but it's Murakami so it might have been more confusing had I known the backstories. Do I remember any o......more

Goodreads review by F on September 21, 2018

My first Murakami and I really enjoyed it.......more

Quotes

“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

"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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