A Wild Sheep Chase
A Tokyo advertising copywriter, adrift after a divorce, prints a friend's snapshot of a Hokkaido meadow in a company bulletin and is summoned by the secretary of a dying political fixer, who gives him a month to find one animal in it: a sheep with a star on its back that enters men and uses them. He goes north with a girlfriend whose ears are her living. The third of the Rat books and the one that carried Murakami abroad, it runs a hardboiled detective frame at a case that will not close.
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