The main character ends up in an abandoned farm house just waiting around for the answer to the mystery to come to him while he smokes, drinks, eats, thinks, and reminisces. The "chase" part of the story doesn't start until half-way through the book and, even when the chase begins, it's just not very exciting. Even placed within the context of Murakami's works, which I am endeavoring to completely wrap my arms around (by reading all of them, in order) I have to feel that this is a forgettable effort.įrom a purely mechanical perspective, the book is a failure. Taken by itself, out of context, just purely as a work of fiction, it does not "work" at all, in my opinion. A Wild Sheep Chase is his third novel.įor those seeking an entry point into the often mysterious and at times completely inscrutable world of Haruki Murakami fiction, I can definitively say that A Wild Sheep Chase is not it. I am reading my way chronologically through the works of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami.
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