A treasury of Japanese folklore and wisdom, beautifully bound by Folio and fully illustrated by artist Yuko Shimizu.
A Wild Sheep Chase
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.
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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.