![]() ![]() In the field, there’s one sheep that shouldn’t exist. The protagonist received the seemingly unassuming photo as a postcard from an old friend, but it turns out that the image is more than meets the eye. ![]() ![]() This life is quickly interrupted, however, when a mysterious man stops by his ad agency to inquire about a photo in an ad he produced showing a herd of sheep in a mountain pasture. He’s married to mediocrity, living a quietly mundane life with few interpersonal connections. There’s nothing particularly special about the novel’s unnamed protagonist. Populated by a cast of offbeat characters and dripping with the author’s signature style, the novel is a zany and dream-like mystery that only he could have written. In his utterly unique 1982 novel, A Wild Sheep Chase, Haruki Murakami tells the tale of an advertising executive undertaking a peculiar quest through the Japanese countryside in search of a one-of-a-kind sheep with a star on its back. ![]()
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