His life was like his recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere.
Add a girl whose ears are so exquisite that, when uncovered, they improve sex a thousand-fold, a runaway friend, a right-wing politico, an ovine-obsessed professor and a manic-depressive in a Sheep outfit, implicate them in a hunt for a sheep, that may or may not be running the world, and the upshot is another singular masterpiece from Japan\'s finest novelist..
But an ordinary life has a way of taking an extraordinary turn.
His life was like his recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere