The narrator uses this photo in an advertisement, which draws the attention of a wealthy and powerful man’s assistant. His longtime friend, The Rat, sends him a photo of a sheep with a star-shaped birthmark on its back. The narrator, recently divorced, is an advertising executive lost in a job he cares nothing for. This book is the third in the “Trilogy of the Rat”, which is a series of novels (the first three of his career) loosely tied together by an unnamed protagonist narrator, his friend “The Rat”, and J, the Chinese owner of a bar. I haven’t yet read Pinball, 1973 – but it’s always been pretty hard to find in English, so I’m thinking he doesn’t exactly hold it in high regard. He hasn’t really found himself yet, and it kind of has the feel of a “first novel”. Hear the Wind Sing, his first novel, has all the hallmarks of a Murakami novel, but doesn’t quite work as well. They’re so inexplicable and enjoyable and uneventful.Ī Wild Sheep Chase, according to the man himself (in What I Talk About When I Talk About Running), was his “real starting point” as a writer – and that makes sense. I seem to always say this, but I don’t really know how to review Haruki Murakami’s books.
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