It is also typical that the protagonist has no name, in fact in this novel none of the characters has a name, they all have weird nicknames. This mastery changing from normal to surrealistic without feeling anything artificial is a typical Murakami pattern found in many of his novels. It is amazing how a storyline that looks normal at the beginning starts to warp, and change and become surrealistic but still feeling “normal”. And yes! it is interesting to read, is even more than that, I think it is magic to read. 300 pages about sheep? Yes it is about sheep, but not really about sheep. Some of the conversations in this novel reminded me The Castle (Franz Kafka), that happens to be one Haruki Murakami’s favorite novels and he confeses he is greatly influenced by Kafka. It is also the last one I had to read to finish reading all his novels in English, the next challenge is to read all of them one more time but in Japanese. “ A Wild Sheep Chase” is the last novel from Haruki Murakami I’ve read.
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