村上春樹（1949－ ），日本小說傢。曾在早稻田大學文學部戲劇科就讀。1979年，他的第一部小說《聽風之歌》問世後，即被搬上瞭銀幕。隨後，他的優秀作品《1973年的彈子球》、《尋羊冒險記》、《挪威的森林》等相繼發錶。他的創作不受傳統拘束，構思新奇，行文瀟灑自在，而又不流於庸俗淺薄。尤其是在刻畫人的孤獨無奈方麵更有特色，他沒有把這種情緒寫成負的東西，而是通過內心的心智性操作使之升華為一種優雅的格調，一種樂在其中的境界，以此來為讀者，尤其是生活在城市裏的人們提供瞭一種生活模式或生命的體驗。

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A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami’s international reputation.

It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company’s advertisement. What he doesn’t realize is that included in the pastoral 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 in black who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins a surreal and elaborate quest that takes our hero from the urban haunts of Tokyo to the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan, where he confronts not only the mythological sheep, but the confines of tradition and the demons deep within himself. Quirky and utterly captivating, A Wild Sheep Chase is Murakami at his astounding best.