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A Wild Sheep Chase
by Haruki Murakami
I genuinely was surprised by this one. I've read two other Murakami books and both have left me a bit traumatized, but his writing is so good that I keep coming back to his works. This book felt vastly different in tone and content than the last two books. At first I was hesitant about where this would go, but it ended with me just feeling a lot of tender emotions for the journey the main character went on and where it ultimately led him to.
Murakami has a way of telling stories in unconventional ways. Almost nobody in this story has names. The most familiar name you hear is The Rat - a distant friend to our main character - and the quest that our main character goes on is so unexpectedly bizarre, I think as a reader we are charmed right into wanting to understand why the main character is so invested in chasing down a sheep. Why his girlfriend's ears give her such unique powers. How does it all fit together? But then as you read and you realize that the sheep means something different - and you read these sprawling passages about the mediocrity of life and the fear that our lives are passing without being lived, and it leaves me in such a state of thought. Murakami finds just the right arrangement of words to make it linger in your brain and make you think and wonder about what it could all mean.
Murakami has a way of telling stories in unconventional ways. Almost nobody in this story has names. The most familiar name you hear is The Rat - a distant friend to our main character - and the quest that our main character goes on is so unexpectedly bizarre, I think as a reader we are charmed right into wanting to understand why the main character is so invested in chasing down a sheep. Why his girlfriend's ears give her such unique powers. How does it all fit together? But then as you read and you realize that the sheep means something different - and you read these sprawling passages about the mediocrity of life and the fear that our lives are passing without being lived, and it leaves me in such a state of thought. Murakami finds just the right arrangement of words to make it linger in your brain and make you think and wonder about what it could all mean.