Hardback, excellent condition other than one flyspeck on page edges, slight shelf wear to cover. Includes large postcard of cover picture (!). Combine with my other items to save on shipping. "With the publication of A Wild Sheep Chase, readers in the West will be introduced to the prodigious talents of Haruki Murakami, the leading novelist of modern Japan. Murakami has been lauded by Japanese critics and readers alike, hailed as the distinctive voice of a new generation. ... The time is now. The setting is Japan - minus the kimono and the impenetrable mystique of an exotic, distant culture. The narrator, identified only by a pronoun, is on principle an ordinary fellow. Thirty years old, he has more intelligence than an overachieving businessman, but no ambition and little purpose. Enter into his lackluster life a young woman, apparently ordinary as well but with ears so gorgeous that all conversation stops in the presence of their unveiling; a right-wing boss with a golfball-sized blood cyst in his brain who's unaccountably been spared standing trial as a Class A war criminal; a sinister, all-efficient lieutenant with beautiful hands and a degree from Stanford; and a brilliant professor permanently sidetracked by an animal that in forty-two years has not dimmed in significance. Inexorably, all are impelled into the bizarre pursuit of a dream-induced sheep."