Summary
Haruki Murakami: The Wild Sheep Chase
In this novel, the main character's life repeats itself like a recurring nightmare: a train that leads nowhere. But even in the life of the most ordinary individual, unusual twists can happen.
Add to the main character a girl whose ears are so beautiful that when there are no hairs they make love a thousand times faster, a runaway friend and a right-wing politician and a professor obsessed with sheep, include all these characters in the hunt for a wild sheep, which may or may not rule the world, and as a result you have another masterpiece of the most important living Japanese writer.
Hunt for Wild Sheep begins as a detective novel, turns into a hilarious comedy, and towards the end becomes a story of obsession... A superb work of art.
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