An advertising man in Tokyo is ordered to find one particular sheep, and Haruki Murakami turns that errand into a strange national journey.
A Wild Sheep Chase sends its unnamed narrator from the city to the mountains of Hokkaido in pursuit of an animal marked with a star, trailed by an unsettling man in a black suit. Detective-story machinery, deadpan humour and a drifting sense of loss hold the novel together, and the third book of the Trilogy of the Rat reads perfectly well without the earlier two in hand. Vintage Books publishes this English edition.
Notable features:
• Quest narrative running from Tokyo to rural Hokkaido
• Detective-novel structure bent towards the surreal
• Third book of the Trilogy of the Rat, readable alone
• Dry humour set against themes of drift and loss
For readers of Japanese literary fiction and magical realism, available from Boipoka.
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