TY - BOOK AU - Murakami,Haruki AU - Birnbaum,Alfred TI - A wild sheep chase SN - 0099448777 U1 - Fic PY - 2003/// CY - London PB - Vintage KW - Japan KW - Fiction KW - lcgft KW - Detective and mystery fiction N2 - A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company’s advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man in black who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins a surreal and elaborate quest that takes our hero from the urban haunts of Tokyo to the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan, where he confronts not only the mythological sheep, but the confines of tradition and the demons deep within himself ER -