ACCLAIM FOR Haruki Murakami“[A Wild Sheep Chase is] a bold new advance in international fiction…. Youthful, slangy, political, and allegorical.”—The New York Times“Murakami’s writing injects the rock ‘n’ roll of everyday language into the exquisite silences of Japanese literary prose.”—Harper’s Bazaar“[Murakami belongs] in the topmost rank of writers of international stature.”—Newsday“Greatly entertaining…. Will remind readers of the first time they read Tom Robbins or … Thomas Pynchon.”—Chicago Tribune“Murakami captures a kind of isolation that is special in its beauty, and particular to our time…. His language speaks so directly to the mind that one remembers with gratitude what words are for.”—Elle“[A Wild Sheep Chase] begins as a detective novel, dips before long into screwball comedy, and at its close—when the dead speak—becomes a tale of possession. That such unruly, disjunctive elements mingle harmoniously within it is perhaps the signal feat in this highly accomplished piece of craftsmanship.”—Brad Leithauser, The New Yorker“A world-class writer who has both eyes open and takes big risks…. If Murakami is the voice of a generation, then it is the generation of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo.”—The Washington Post Book World