There the narrator's girlfriend digs through various texts in the library and they explore the city.
Which brings the two to the Hokkaido region, in a cold and mountainous town called Sapporo. The biggest clue seems to be the photo of the sheep that the mysterious man wished to cease publishing. The narrator and his girlfriend, who possesses magically seductive and supernaturally perceptive ears, travel to the north of Japan to find the sheep and his vagabond friend. He also explains that a strange sheep with a star-shaped birthmark, pictured in the advertisement, was in some way the secret source of the Boss' power and that he has one month to find that sheep or his career and life will be ruined. The Boss' secretary tells him that his agency must immediately cease publication of the photo.
The story begins when the recently divorced protagonist, an advertisement executive, publishes a photo of a pastoral scene sent to him in a confessional letter by his long-lost friend, 'Rat.' He is contacted by a mysterious man representing 'The Boss,' a central force behind Japan's political and economic elite, who is now slowly dying. This quasi-detective tale follows an unnamed, chain-smoking narrator and his adventures in Tokyo and Hokkaido in 1978. The book is part mystery and part magical realism with a postmodern twist.Ī Wild Sheep Chase has been defined as a parody or a renewal of Yukio Mishima's. In the novel, Murakami blends elements of American and English literature with Japanese contexts, exploring post- WWII Japanese cultural identity. While the original story of A Wild Sheep Chase was set in the 1970s, translator Alfred Birnbaum and Kodansha editor Elmer Luke wanted a story that was more contemporary and also appealed to American readers. It won the 1982 Noma Literary Newcomer's Prize. It is an independent sequel to Pinball, 1973, and the third book in the so-called "Trilogy of the Rat". First published in Japan in 1982, it was translated into English in 1989. (literally An Adventure Concerning Sheep ) is the third novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.
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