Quirky and utterly captivating, A Crazy Sheep Chase is certainly Murakami at his astounding best.

An advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates the image for an advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that contained in the picture can be a mutant sheep having a superstar on its back, and in applying this image he offers unwittingly captured the attention of a man who gives a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Therefore starts a surreal and intricate quest that will take readers from Tokyo to the remote control mountains of north Japan, where in fact the unnamed protagonist has a amazing confrontation with his demons.