July Reading Groups – A Wild Sheep Chase

A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami 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 with exquisite ears, a runaway friend, a right-wing politico, an ovine-obsessed professor and a manic-depressive in a sheep outfit, a sheep that may or may not be running the world, and the upshot is another singular masterpiece from Japan’s finest novelist. It begins as a detective novel, dips into a screwball comedy, and at its close becomes a tale of possession…