Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum.
A mission to find a sheep with a star on its back; not a lost sheep but a sheep with a will of its own . . .
His life was like his recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere. But an ordinary life has a way of taking an extraordinary turn. Add a girl whose ears are so exquisite that, when uncovered, they improve sex a thousand-fold, a runaway friend, a right-wing politico, a bovine-obsessed professor, and a manic-depressive in a sheep outfit, implicate them in a hunt for a sheep, that may or may not be running the world, and the upshot is another singular masterpiece from Japan's finest novelist.
Dark, dry and downright weird, 'A Wild Sheep Chase' is part screwball comedy, part detective story and part heroic quest.
