A Wild Sheep Chase

Version: Unabridged
Author: Haruki Murakami
Narrator: Rupert Degas
Genres: Fiction, Literature
Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks Ltd.
Date: July 2006
Length: 10 hours
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Overview

A Wild Sheep Chase is one of Murakami's most fantastical novel. An advertising executive, infatuated with a girl who possesses the most perfect ears (an erotic charge for him) uses a picture of a sheep with a star on its back. This catapults him into a weird adventure to find the mythical sheep up in the wilds of Hokkaido, Japan's northern island. There are strange encounters, a hotel with an extra disappearing floor, and other oddities. A Wild Sheep Chase is an early Murakami work, but its remarkable and individual voice makes it one of the most thrilling of his books. Superbly read by Rupert Degas with an edge of Raymond Chandler.

Selected Reviews

Odd but fun

by Laurie
  • Book Rating: 4/5

Funny and disturbing

by Angie Teal
  • Book Rating: 4/5

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Reviews (2)

Odd but fun

Written by Laurie on December 16th, 2009

  • Book Rating: 4/5

The story itself was strange and fun and reminded me a bit of the way Christopher Moore writes - with interesting and odd characters finding themselves in very bizarre and impossible situations. What I did find disturbing (and a bit distracting) is that the narrator that read it was mostly likely American (I say most likely, because he completely mispronounced some words, unlike an American would pronounce them), and he read it in an American accent. The strange part was that the text was written with an American voice (the words, phrases, ect) even though the entire story takes place in Japan. Even stranger were the voices the reader gave to other characters, such as an obviously elderly Japanese man speaking with a Texas Panhandle accent or the friend who had grown up where the story takes place in Japan with a New Jersey accent. It was weird! In the end, if you like funny but bizarre stories, this is a good one.

Funny and disturbing

Written by Angie Teal on April 28th, 2009

  • Book Rating: 4/5

At first I did not know what to make of the book. It was funny and made me laugh out loud, but it was also difficult to understand. Mostly because I am not familiar with the Japanese culture. I would compare it to John Irving books, they are not always easy to read (listen to), but very deep. I got caught in the web of the story and in the end was so deeply involved that it distracted me from my driving. A definitely unique experience.

Selected Reviews

Odd but fun

by Laurie
  • Book Rating: 4/5

Funny and disturbing

by Angie Teal
  • Book Rating: 4/5

More...

Read All 2

Author Details

Author Details

Murakami, Haruki

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into thirty-four languages, and the most recent of his many honors is the Yomiuri Literary Prize, whose previous recipients include Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe, and Kobo Abe.