An Imperial Sheep Chase
In his 1982 novel A Wild Sheep Chase, Haruki Murakami takes his readers on the hunt for a mythological beast, a mutant sheep with a faint star-shaped birthmark on its back.The novel is set in the 1930s and the sheep emerges from centuries of hibernation as Japan aggressively expands its empire into northeast China in search of the perfect human host to carry out its own agenda