Wonderfully easy to read and just as wonderfully difficult to make sense of...like the narrator, who slowly accepts the presence in his life of mystery, we slowly recognize the possibility of a new kind of world. Like him, we lean forward and topple headlong into magic

It begins as a detective novel, dips into a screwball comedy, and at its close becomes a tale of possession...A highly accomplished piece of craftsmanship

Mr. Murakami's style and imagination are closer to that of Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Carver and John Irving

A Wild Sheep Chase has the conventional hull of a thriller - a quest, a mystery, an extraordinary woman, and plenty of elegant duress - but its fantastic superstructure transforms it into something quite different...a science fiction fantasy, a romance, a metaphysical tease, or a dramatisation of philosophical ideas

If you consider yourself an intelligent, sensitive common reader but wish to accommodate something a little removed from your experience, and probably your imagination, I dare you to turn your eyes towards Murakami and head off on a wild sheep chase.

Discover what a fine writer Murakami is with this engrossing examination of a male mid-life crisis... He enthrallingly teases out the risks, culminating in a headily sensual finale

A beautiful, atmospheric novel sustained by Murakami's flair for philosophical mediation at its most human

A wise and beautiful book.

A probing meditation on human fragility, the grip of obsession, and the impenetrable, erotically charged enigma that is the other.

Brilliant. . . . A mesmerizing new example of Murakami's deeply original fiction.

Lovely, deceptively simple. . . . A novel of existential romance.

His most deeply moving novel.

Mesmerizing. . . . This is a harrowing, a disturbing, a hauntingly brilliant tale.

A fine, almost delicate book about what is unfathomable about us.

Portrayed in a fluid language that veers from the vernacular . . . to the surprisingly poetic.