One of this author's protagonists can count the coins in each of his pockets simultaneously and "dates" an amazingly hungry librarian while researching unicorn skulls. In another of his novels, the narrator's love for The Great Gatsby makes him friends with a student who takes him to bars for one-night stands, despite having a girlfriend. That novel by this author begins with the protagonist landing in (*) Hamburg and remembering a conversation about a "field well." His early novels include Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, which, like many of his works, has two parallel storylines collide. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of 1Q84, Kafka on the
One of this author's protagonists can count the coins in each of his pockets simultaneously and "dates" an amazingly hungry librarian while researching unicorn skulls. In another of his novels, the narrator's love for The Great Gatsby makes him friends with a student who takes him to bars for one-night stands, despite having a girlfriend. That novel by this author begins with the protagonist landing in (*) Hamburg and remembering a conversation about a "field well." His early novels include Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, which, like many of his works, has two parallel storylines collide. For 10 points, name this Japanese author of 1Q84, Kafka on the Shore and Norwegian Wood.
One of this author's protagonists can count the coins in each of his pockets simultaneously and "dates" an amazingly hungry librarian while researching unicorn skulls.
Haruki Murakami [or Murakami Haruki]