A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (Vintage International) - Softcover

"Murakami is a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman." -New York Times Book Review

"A delight . . . equal parts screwball comedy, detective story, and heroic quest." -USA Today

"A witty adventure . . . a piece of verbal anarchy . . . a labyrinthine mystery from start to finish." -San Francisco Chronicle

"Marvelously engaging, at turns witty, dry, wicked, even loopy. Reading A Wild Sheep Chase is like spending a splendidly foul weekend with the Four Raymonds-Chandler, Carver, Massey, and Queneau."-Frederick Barthelme

Blending elements of myth and mystery, a stunning novel by the author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle features a cast of bizarre characters, including a sheep with a mysterious star on its back, caught up in a Nietzschean quest for power. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.