This author created a character who learns to read dreams from the skulls of unicorns after having his shadow removed. He was inspired to write his first novel when he saw Dave Hilton hit a double in 1978. This man wrote a novel whose narrator reminisces about his cartography-major roommate Storm Trooper and the suicide of his friend Naoko after hearing a certain (*) Beatles song. In another novel by this author of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, the protagonist corresponds with May Kasahara and searches for his cat Noboru Wataya. For 10 points, identify this Japanese author who wrote about Toru Watan
This author created a character who learns to read dreams from the skulls of unicorns after having his shadow removed. He was inspired to write his first novel when he saw Dave Hilton hit a double in 1978. This man wrote a novel whose narrator reminisces about his cartography-major roommate Storm Trooper and the suicide of his friend Naoko after hearing a certain (*) Beatles song. In another novel by this author of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, the protagonist corresponds with May Kasahara and searches for his cat Noboru Wataya. For 10 points, identify this Japanese author who wrote about Toru Watanabe in Norwegian Wood and about Toru Okada in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
This author created a character who learns to read dreams from the skulls of unicorns after having his shadow removed.
Haruki Murakami [accept names in either order]