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Formats and Editions
1. A Wild Sheep Chase ? Part One
2. About Her Background I Know Almost Nothing
3. Part Two ? July, Eight Years Earlier
4. I Held Out a Box of Tissues to Her
5. Track 5
6. the Slip
7. Part Three ? September, Two Months Later
8. I First Became Acquainted with Her (Or Rather Her Ears)
9. What a Lovely Place, She Said. Do You Come Here Often?
10. As a Close Friend, There Are a Couple of Things I Want to Ask You
11. I Grew Up in An Ordinary Little Town, Went to An Ordinary School
12. Track 12
13. Unblocked Ears
14. Track 14
15. the Further Adventures of Unblocked Ears
16. Part Four ? a Wild Sheep Chase, I
17. Okay, I Know What You're Trying to Say, I Said
18. Track 18
19. Now the Strange Man
20. You Are Familiar with the Partys Name, I Trust? Said the Man
21. Track 21
22. the Boss
23. 1
24. Counting Sheep
25. 1
26. the Limo and It's Driver
27. 1
28. Wherefore the Worm Universe
29. But Then Some Joker of An Architect Came Along to Attach
30. Part Five ? Letters from the Rat and Assorted Reminiscences
31. Let Me Tell You About the Towns I've Seen
32. 1
33. the Rats Second Letter (Postmarked May, This Year)
34. What the Hell Was I Talking About? Women, That's Right
35. I Found the Letter in My Mailbox As I Was Leaving My Apartment
36. 1
37. the Song Is Over
38. The Third JS Bar Was a Quarter of a Mile Away, By the River
39. At Nine O'Clock, JS Bar Was Starting to Get Crowded
40. 1
41. She Drinks Her Salty Dog, Talking About the Sound of the Waves
42. The Drizzle Still Hadn't Let Up By Five O'Clock the Next Evening
43. It Seems I'm Boring You I Shook My Head
44. Part Six ? a Wild Sheep Chase, II
45. Even After I'd Finished, the Man Stared at Me Without Comment
46. Did You Notice Anything Out of the Ordinary?
47. 1
48. the Strange Mans Strange Tale Goes on
49. When He Finished Talking, the Man Cleared His Throat
50. At That the Man Lit His Cigarette
51. I Balanced the Lighter in My Hand. It Had An Excellent Feel to It
52. 1
53. the Limo and It's Driver, Again
54. 2
55. Summers End, Autumns Beginning
56. 2
57. One in Five Thousand
58. 2
59. Sunday Afternoon Picnic
60. There Was a Travel Agency Near the Train Station, Where I Booked
61. 2
62. Limited But Tenacious Thinking
63. The Man Read Back the Items from His Notepad. a Memo Well Taken
64. 2
65. One for the Kipper
66. The Chauffeur Took Us to the Airport. the Cat Rode Quietly Up Front
67. We Received Our Boarding Passes at the Airport Check-In Counter
68. Part Seven ? the Dolphin Hotel Affair
69. We Came Out of the Movie Theatre and Strolled the Twilit Streets,.
70. I Wrote My Name on the Card But Had Second Thoughts
71. 2
72. Enter the Sheep Professor
73. The Fifth, Then the Sixth Day Passed. October Laid Heavy on the Town
74. Just Great, Said I. This Just Great Business Was Becoming a Habit
75. 2
76. the Sheep Professor Eats All, Tells All
77. February 193
78. the Sheep Professor Is Ordered Home to Japan
79. The Sheep Professor Had Long Hair, White As Snow
80. The Sheep Professor Began. It Was the Summer of 1935
81. I Began with the Route the Sheep Took After It Left
82. 2
83. Farewell to the Dolphin Hotel
84. Part Eight ? a Wild Sheep Chase, III
85. It's Not Obvious Why the Ainu Youth, Instead of Returning
86. Of Course, the Government Was Not Being Generous for Nothing
87. 3
88. the Further Decline of Junitaki and It's Sheep
89. A Few Minutes Before Departure Time, She Returned with a Bag
90. Beyond the Shops, the Road Ambled Down a Slope to the River
91. The Livestock Officer Drove a Small Sedan
92. The Caretaker Was Next to the Barn, Stacking Plastic Bags
93. 3
94. Night in Junitaki
95. 3
96. An Unlucky Bend in the Road
97. You Leave the Disinfecting to the Afternoon?
98. After Thirty Minutes Drive, the Paved Surface Suddenly Disappeared
99. The Sky Was Weighed Down with a Moist, Uniform Gray
100. Straight on Across the Pasture Stood An Old American-Style
101. Only in the Farther Small Bedroom Was There Any Lingering Scent
102. 3
103. She Leaves the Mountain; Hunger Strikes
104. 3
105. a Find in the Garage; Thoughts in the Middle of the Pasture
106. 3
107. the Sheep Man Cometh
108. I'm Looking for a Friend of Mine, I Ventured
109. 3
110. the Winds Own Private Thoroughfare
111. Something Gnawed at Me. Something That Had Passed Before
112. Seated on the Edge of a Bridge, Watching Me, Was the Sheep Man
113. Early in the Afternoon of the Ninth Day, I Was Looking Through
114. 3
115. Things the Mirror Shows, Things the Mirror Doesn't
116. On the Twelfth Day, Snow Fell for the Third Time
117. 3
118. And So Time Passes
119. 3
120. Dwellers in Darkness
121. 4
122. the Rat Who Wound the Clock
123. I Could Say Nothing
124. The Rat Let Go a Good, Jolly Laugh from Off in the Dark
125. 4
126. Green Cords and Red Cords; Frozen Seagulls
127. 4
128. Return Visit to the Unlucky Bend
129. 4
130. the Twelve-O'Clock Rendezvous
131. Epilogue
More Info:
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.
