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A Wild Sheep Chase

Haruki Murakami

Illustrated by Daniel Liévano

First Printing

Immerse yourself in Haruki Murakami's surreal masterpiece A Wild Sheep Chase, now available in a stunning Folio Society edition. Illustrated by award-winning artist Daniel Liévano, this edition perfectly captures the magical realism of Murakami’s work.

£95.00

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Editor’s Note
Sophia Schoepfer, Editor

Lose yourself in a detective novel like no other. Part mystery, part post-modern escapade, this is a reckoning of post-World War Two Japan with all the imaginative flamboyance you would expect from Murakami. Series artist Daniel Liévano returns for the newest in Folio's Murakami series with his deeply thoughtful and beautiful colourwork: the book sings with his motifs and unique riffs. Murakami, Liévano and Folio is a match made in heaven.

Bound in blocked cloth

Set in Arno with Futura as display

320 pages

Frontispiece plus 5 colour double-page illustrations and 1 single-page illustration, with motifs on the reverse

Printed throughout in black and red, with a handful of integrated illustrated motifs

Printed endpapers

Blocked and die-cut slipcase

Sized at 10˝ x 6¾˝

‘Illustrating Murakami, it’s not painting the things you see in life like a forest or a train station, a cat or an abandoned house, it’s paying attention to the things you can’t see in these places, like the overwhelming feelings of being lost in that forest, just by reading it. It’s magic.’
Daniel Liévano, Illustrator

A man living a mundane, aimless life. A girlfriend with bewitching ears. A photograph of a sheep and a mysterious phone call sets a man on a surreal real journey. What begins as a seemingly simple search for a magical sheep transforms into a quest for self-discovery, where the lines between reality and fantastical blur. With Murakami’s signature touch of magical realism, this tale unfolds as a beguiling blend of detective story and existential exploration, drawing the reader into a world where nothing is quite as it seems.

About Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1949. He grew up in Kobe and studied drama at Waseda University in Tokyo, where he later opened a jazz bar with his wife. In 1979 Murakami won the Gunzou Literature Prize for his first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, which was followed by Pinball, 1973 (1980) and A Wild Sheep Chase (1982, Folio 2024). Further renown followed with Norwegian Wood (1987; Folio 2022), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95, Folio 2021), Kafka on the Shore (2002; Folio 2021) and 1Q84 (2009–10). To date, Murakami’s work has been translated into more than 50 languages and his accolades include the World Fantasy Award, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, and the Jerusalem Prize.

About Daniel Liévano

Daniel Liévano was born in Bogotá in 1988. As an editorial illustrator he has devoted most of his work to the creation of conceptual images for clients including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Economist, The Sunday Times, Victionary and The Lancet. As an author and illustrator, Daniel likes to explore abstraction, taking information from other media such as poetry and independent film. His experimental comic book, The Mountain of Reality (2018), was listed by Arcadia Magazine as among the best books published in Colombia and his second graphic novel, Gravity (2020), was awarded the Gold Medal in the Book category from The Society of Illustrators in New York. For the Folio Society he has illustrated Kafka on the Shore (2021), Norwegian Wood (2022), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (2023) and A Wild Sheep Chase (2024).

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