Description

A wonderful hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase may be the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami’s worldwide status. It starts simply enough: A twenty something advertising executive gets a postcard from the friend, and delicately appropriates the picture for an insurance company’s ad. What he doesn’t recognize is that contained in the pastoral landscape is just a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in by using this picture he's unknowingly taken the interest of the gentleman in black who provides a threatening ultimatum: discover the sheep or face serious consequences. Thus starts a sophisticated and unique mission that requires our hero in the metropolitan places of Tokyo for the cold and distant mountains of northern Japan, where he affects not just the sheep, however the limits of convention and the devils deep within herself.