The Unvanquished is a Civil War drama set in Mississippi and centered on the Sartoris family. Originally published as seven short stories, the novel deals variously with the war itself, black market smuggling, small town life, and ideas of honor and legacy. It is a quintessentially Southern narrative with a broad perspective on Mississippi life in the second half of the nineteenth century. At the novel's conclusion the various stories resolve their interconnected threads.
A Wild Sheep Chase, published in 1982, is the third novel in the "Trilogy of the Rat" by Haruki Murakami. The novel takes place in Japan in 1978 and follows an unnamed protagonist who gets caught up in a hunt for a long-since missing sheep. His adventures bring him in contact with a magically seductive woman and a man who dresses up as a sheep. The novel deals with themes of Japanese identity after World War Two, satire and spirituality.