A Wild Sheep Chase
1982 • 229 pages

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It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company's advertisement. What he doesn't realize is that included in the pastoral 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 in black who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins a surreal and elaborate quest that takes our hero from the urban haunts of Tokyo to the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan, where he confronts not only the mythological sheep, but the confines of tradition and the demons deep within himself.


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#3 in The Rat

The Rat is a 4-book series with 4 released primary works first released in 1979 with contributions by Haruki Murakami.

#1
Hear the Wind Sing
#2
Pinball, 1973
#3
A Wild Sheep Chase
#4
Dance Dance Dance

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May 3, 2020

Excellent except that the ending underwhelmed me. It's possible that there was something to get that I just missed, but it seemed like he had hit some sort of predefined page limit and was like “Well, time to wrap it up.”

December 27, 2011

I love the imagination of this author &he kept my interest throughout the book, although it felt at time slike it was taking too long to get to the point. Ending wasn't entirely satisfying

November 22, 2012

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