A Wild Sheep Chase is one of Murakami's most fantastical novels. An advertising executive, infatuated with a girl who possesses the most perfect ears (an erotic charge for him) uses a picture of a sheep with a star on it's back. This catapults him into a weird adventure to find the mythical sheep up in the wilds of Hokkaido, Japan's northern island. There are strange encounters, a hotel with an extra disappearing floor, and other oddities. A Wild Sheep Chase is an early Murakami work, but it's remarkable and individual voice makes it one of the most thrilling of his books.

Tracklist:

A Wild Sheep Chase ? Part One
About Her Background I Know Almost Nothing
Part Two ? July, Eight Years Earlier
I Held Out a Box of Tissues to Her
the Slip
Part Three ? September, Two Months Later
I First Became Acquainted with Her (Or Rather Her Ears)
What a Lovely Place, She Said. Do You Come Here Often?
As a Close Friend, There Are a Couple of Things I Want to Ask You
I Grew Up in An Ordinary Little Town, Went to An Ordinary School
Unblocked Ears
the Further Adventures of Unblocked Ears
Part Four ? a Wild Sheep Chase, I
Okay, I Know What You're Trying to Say, I Said
Now the Strange Man
You Are Familiar with the Partys Name, I Trust? Said the Man
the Boss
1
Counting Sheep
1
the Limo and It's Driver
1
Wherefore the Worm Universe
But Then Some Joker of An Architect Came Along to Attach
Part Five ? Letters from the Rat and Assorted Reminiscences
Let Me Tell You About the Towns I've Seen
1
the Rats Second Letter (Postmarked May, This Year)
What the Hell Was I Talking About? Women, That's Right
I Found the Letter in My Mailbox As I Was Leaving My Apartment
1
the Song Is Over
The Third JS Bar Was a Quarter of a Mile Away, By the River
At Nine O'Clock, JS Bar Was Starting to Get Crowded
1
She Drinks Her Salty Dog, Talking About the Sound of the Waves
The Drizzle Still Hadn't Let Up By Five O'Clock the Next Evening
It Seems I'm Boring You I Shook My Head
Part Six ? a Wild Sheep Chase, II
Even After I'd Finished, the Man Stared at Me Without Comment
Did You Notice Anything Out of the Ordinary?
1
the Strange Mans Strange Tale Goes on
When He Finished Talking, the Man Cleared His Throat
At That the Man Lit His Cigarette
I Balanced the Lighter in My Hand. It Had An Excellent Feel to It
1
the Limo and It's Driver, Again
2
Summers End, Autumns Beginning
2
One in Five Thousand
2
Sunday Afternoon Picnic
There Was a Travel Agency Near the Train Station, Where I Booked
2
Limited But Tenacious Thinking
The Man Read Back the Items from His Notepad. a Memo Well Taken
2
One for the Kipper
The Chauffeur Took Us to the Airport. the Cat Rode Quietly Up Front
We Received Our Boarding Passes at the Airport Check-In Counter
Part Seven ? the Dolphin Hotel Affair
We Came Out of the Movie Theatre and Strolled the Twilit Streets,.
I Wrote My Name on the Card But Had Second Thoughts
2
Enter the Sheep Professor
The Fifth, Then the Sixth Day Passed. October Laid Heavy on the Town
Just Great, Said I. This Just Great Business Was Becoming a Habit
2
the Sheep Professor Eats All, Tells All
February 193
the Sheep Professor Is Ordered Home to Japan
The Sheep Professor Had Long Hair, White As Snow
The Sheep Professor Began. It Was the Summer of 1935
I Began with the Route the Sheep Took After It Left
2
Farewell to the Dolphin Hotel
Part Eight ? a Wild Sheep Chase, III
It's Not Obvious Why the Ainu Youth, Instead of Returning
Of Course, the Government Was Not Being Generous for Nothing
3
the Further Decline of Junitaki and It's Sheep
A Few Minutes Before Departure Time, She Returned with a Bag
Beyond the Shops, the Road Ambled Down a Slope to the River
The Livestock Officer Drove a Small Sedan
The Caretaker Was Next to the Barn, Stacking Plastic Bags
3
Night in Junitaki
3
An Unlucky Bend in the Road
You Leave the Disinfecting to the Afternoon?
After Thirty Minutes Drive, the Paved Surface Suddenly Disappeared
The Sky Was Weighed Down with a Moist, Uniform Gray
Straight on Across the Pasture Stood An Old American-Style
Only in the Farther Small Bedroom Was There Any Lingering Scent
3
She Leaves the Mountain; Hunger Strikes
3
a Find in the Garage; Thoughts in the Middle of the Pasture
3
the Sheep Man Cometh
I'm Looking for a Friend of Mine, I Ventured
3
the Winds Own Private Thoroughfare
Something Gnawed at Me. Something That Had Passed Before
Seated on the Edge of a Bridge, Watching Me, Was the Sheep Man
Early in the Afternoon of the Ninth Day, I Was Looking Through
3
Things the Mirror Shows, Things the Mirror Doesn't
On the Twelfth Day, Snow Fell for the Third Time
3
And So Time Passes
3
Dwellers in Darkness
4
the Rat Who Wound the Clock
I Could Say Nothing
The Rat Let Go a Good, Jolly Laugh from Off in the Dark
4
Green Cords and Red Cords; Frozen Seagulls
4
Return Visit to the Unlucky Bend
4
the Twelve-O'Clock Rendezvous
Epilogue

UPC: 730099096225
Label: Naxos Audio Books
Release Date: 7.1.06
Format: CD

Haruki Murakami - Wild Sheep Chase (CD)