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A wild sheep chase

by Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum

After using a photograph of a mutant sheep in an advertising campaign, a Tokyo executive is forced to embark on a surreal quest through northern Japan to find the mysterious animal.

Accession 13653 ISBN 9780099448778 Publisher Vintage Books
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