A Wild Sheep Chase

Again, another Murakami's book. This is the 10th book. Yup, after falling in love with his works, I decided to go to Aksara bookstore and bought all available Murakami's books. A bit difficult to get his complete collection since not many bookstores sell it. Well, now I am in the middle of finishing the book one by one.

This time, Murakami wrote about sheep. Weird as usual. Talking about a twenty-something advertising executive guy who receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company's advertisement. What he doesn't realize is the picture in the postcard shows a mutant sheep with a star on its back and suddenly a guy comes to meet him and instruct him either to find the sheep or face terrible consequences.

Thus begin a journey that take him from Tokyo to the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan, where he confronts not only the mythological sheep, but also the confines of tradition in the demons deep within himself. It's really a witty adventure.

Interesting story but not as special as other Murakami's books.