A Wild Sheep Chase is one of Murakami's most fantastical novels. 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 it's 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 it's remarkable and individual voice makes it one of the most thrilling of his books.
7 I First Became Acquainted with Her (Or Rather Her Ears)
8 What a Lovely Place, She Said. Do You Come Here Often?
9 As a Close Friend, There Are a Couple of Things I Want to Ask You
10 I Grew Up in An Ordinary Little Town, Went to An Ordinary School
11 5. Unblocked Ears
- Disc 2 -
1 6. the Further Adventures of Unblocked Ears
2 Part Four ? a Wild Sheep Chase, I
3 Okay, I Know What You're Trying to Say, I Said
4 8. Now the Strange Man
5 You Are Familiar with the Partys Name, I Trust? Said the Man
6 9. the Boss
7 10. Counting Sheep
8 11. the Limo and It's Driver
9 12. Wherefore the Worm Universe
10 But Then Some Joker of An Architect Came Along to Attach
11 Part Five ? Letters from the Rat and Assorted Reminiscences
12 Let Me Tell You About the Towns I've Seen
13 14. the Rats Second Letter (Postmarked May, This Year)
14 What the Hell Was I Talking About? Women, That's Right
- Disc 3 -
1 I Found the Letter in My Mailbox As I Was Leaving My Apartment
2 15. the Song Is Over
3 The Third JS Bar Was a Quarter of a Mile Away, By the River
4 At Nine O'Clock, JS Bar Was Starting to Get Crowded
5 16. She Drinks Her Salty Dog, Talking About the Sound of the Waves
6 The Drizzle Still Hadn't Let Up By Five O'Clock the Next Evening
7 It Seems I'm Boring You I Shook My Head
8 Part Six ? a Wild Sheep Chase, II
9 Even After I'd Finished, the Man Stared at Me Without Comment
10 Did You Notice Anything Out of the Ordinary?
11 18. the Strange Mans Strange Tale Goes on
12 When He Finished Talking, the Man Cleared His Throat
- Disc 4 -
1 At That the Man Lit His Cigarette
2 I Balanced the Lighter in My Hand. It Had An Excellent Feel to It
3 19. the Limo and It's Driver, Again
4 20. Summers End, Autumns Beginning
5 21. One in Five Thousand
6 22. Sunday Afternoon Picnic
7 There Was a Travel Agency Near the Train Station, Where I Booked
8 23. Limited But Tenacious Thinking
9 The Man Read Back the Items from His Notepad. a Memo Well Taken
10 24. One for the Kipper
11 The Chauffeur Took Us to the Airport. the Cat Rode Quietly Up Front
- Disc 5 -
1 We Received Our Boarding Passes at the Airport Check-In Counter
2 Part Seven ? the Dolphin Hotel Affair
3 We Came Out of the Movie Theatre and Strolled the Twilit Streets,.
4 I Wrote My Name on the Card But Had Second Thoughts
5 26. Enter the Sheep Professor
6 The Fifth, Then the Sixth Day Passed. October Laid Heavy on the Town
7 Just Great, Said I. This Just Great Business Was Becoming a Habit
8 27. the Sheep Professor Eats All, Tells All
9 February 1936. the Sheep Professor Is Ordered Home to Japan
10 The Sheep Professor Had Long Hair, White As Snow
11 The Sheep Professor Began. It Was the Summer of 1935
- Disc 6 -
1 I Began with the Route the Sheep Took After It Left
2 28. Farewell to the Dolphin Hotel
3 Part Eight ? a Wild Sheep Chase, III
4 It's Not Obvious Why the Ainu Youth, Instead of Returning
5 Of Course, the Government Was Not Being Generous for Nothing
6 30. the Further Decline of Junitaki and It's Sheep
7 A Few Minutes Before Departure Time, She Returned with a Bag
8 Beyond the Shops, the Road Ambled Down a Slope to the River
9 The Livestock Officer Drove a Small Sedan
10 The Caretaker Was Next to the Barn, Stacking Plastic Bags
11 31. Night in Junitaki
12 32. An Unlucky Bend in the Road
- Disc 7 -
1 You Leave the Disinfecting to the Afternoon?
2 After Thirty Minutes Drive, the Paved Surface Suddenly Disappeared
3 The Sky Was Weighed Down with a Moist, Uniform Gray
4 Straight on Across the Pasture Stood An Old American-Style
5 Only in the Farther Small Bedroom Was There Any Lingering Scent
6 33. She Leaves the Mountain; Hunger Strikes
7 34. a Find in the Garage; Thoughts in the Middle of the Pasture
8 35. the Sheep Man Cometh
9 I'm Looking for a Friend of Mine, I Ventured
10 36. the Winds Own Private Thoroughfare
11 Something Gnawed at Me. Something That Had Passed Before
- Disc 8 -
1 Seated on the Edge of a Bridge, Watching Me, Was the Sheep Man
2 Early in the Afternoon of the Ninth Day, I Was Looking Through
3 37. Things the Mirror Shows, Things the Mirror Doesn't
4 On the Twelfth Day, Snow Fell for the Third Time
5 38. And So Time Passes
6 39. Dwellers in Darkness
7 40. the Rat Who Wound the Clock
8 I Could Say Nothing
9 The Rat Let Go a Good, Jolly Laugh from Off in the Dark
10 41. Green Cords and Red Cords; Frozen Seagulls
11 42. Return Visit to the Unlucky Bend
12 43. the Twelve-O'Clock Rendezvous
13 Epilogue
A Wild Sheep Chase is one of Murakami's most fantastical novels. 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 it's 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 it's remarkable and individual voice makes it one of the most thrilling of his books.
