So let’s stop viewing sheep merely as a source of wool and meat. If you doubt the power of sheep, then remember Genghis Khan, because one sheep can transform the world. The sheep is the one with the big plans, bringing down institutions and creating chaos and order. An act that is often seen as a blessing of the gods. I guess that is why I sometimes lack inspiration or action, because of my sheeplessness.īut what is the purpose of the pure white sheep with a brownish star on its back that started this wild sheep chase? The sheep has a monumental plan to transform humanity and the human world and does so by entering a person’s body. That is what it is to be ‘sheepless.'” So that’s what happens when you’re left with the shadow of a sheep, a sheep bigger than life itself. But without the sheep there is no expelling the idea. You know what you’re in for, and you’ll probably enjoy it.“The sheep goes away leaving only an idea. But if you’ve found yourself to be the kind of person who does like the author, I think this’ll be worth your time. This probably isn’t the first book you should pick up if you’ve never read a Murakami before. Turns out, the sheep is the embodiment of his wealthy benefactor’s power.Īnd that’s the clearest summation of the book I could come up with. The assistant tells the narrator he has two months to find this sheep, or his life will be ruined. The narrator uses this photo in an advertisement, which draws the attention of a wealthy and powerful man’s assistant. His longtime friend, The Rat, sends him a photo of a sheep with a star-shaped birthmark on its back. The narrator, recently divorced, is an advertising executive lost in a job he cares nothing for. This book is the third in the “Trilogy of the Rat”, which is a series of novels (the first three of his career) loosely tied together by an unnamed protagonist narrator, his friend “The Rat”, and J, the Chinese owner of a bar. I haven’t yet read Pinball, 1973 – but it’s always been pretty hard to find in English, so I’m thinking he doesn’t exactly hold it in high regard. He hasn’t really found himself yet, and it kind of has the feel of a “first novel”. Hear the Wind Sing, his first novel, has all the hallmarks of a Murakami novel, but doesn’t quite work as well. They’re so inexplicable and enjoyable and uneventful.Ī Wild Sheep Chase, according to the man himself (in What I Talk About When I Talk About Running), was his “real starting point” as a writer – and that makes sense. I seem to always say this, but I don’t really know how to review Haruki Murakami’s books.
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