The bizarre, the fanciful and the poignant mix in equal doses in Haruki Murakami’s 1982 novel A Wild Sheep Chase. The story is just as iconoclastic in its mash-up of diverse genres. Is it a detective story? Or a peculiar variant of magical realism? Absurdist or surreal? A coming-of-age on-the-road story akin to those of Jack Kerouac or J.D. Salinger? Or…
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