A Wild Sheep Chase

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An unremarkable man receives a photograph of sheep grazing on a hillside — and a demand from a dying political kingpin's lieutenant: find the one sheep in the photo with a star on its back, or face ruin. What follows is a journey from Tokyo to the remote mountains of Hokkaido, where reality thins and the search becomes something far stranger than a missing animal. Haruki Murakami's breakthrough novel is the book where his signature style crystallized — the deadpan narrator, the surreal intrusions into ordinary life, the sense that loneliness and mystery are the same thing. Part detective story, part metaphysical fable, A Wild Sheep Chase asks what happens when you follow an impossible errand to its end and discover that what you've really been chasing is yourself.