A Wild Sheep Chase

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