**A New York Times bestselling author--and "a mythmaker for the
millennium, a wiseacre wiseman" (New York Times Book Review)--delivers
a surreal and elaborate quest that takes readers from Tokyo to the
remote mountains of northern Japan, where the unnamed protagonist has a
surprising confrontation with his demons.
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An advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually
appropriates the image for an advertisement. What he doesn't realize is
that included in the scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back,
and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a
man who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire
consequences.