A mutual love for The Great Gatsby prompts the womanizing (*) Nagasawa to befriend this novel's protagonist, who adopts a cat named Seagull after leaving the dorms, where he roomed with a neat-freak cartographer nicknamed "Storm Trooper".
One character in this novel claims that a column of smoke comes from a school burning "a hundred and eighty girls' worth" of sanitary napkins. Its frame narrative opens on a flight into Hamburg, after which the protagonist reminisces on a discussion about the "field well". Another character in this novel had a breakdown after her seduction by a mythomaniacal 13-year-old piano prodigy. A mutual love for The Great Gatsby prompts the womanizing (*) Nagasawa to befriend this novel's protagonist, who adopts a cat named Seagull after leaving the dorms, where he roomed with a neat-freak cartographer nicknamed "Storm Trooper". Its protagonist meets Reiko at a sanatorium while visiting Naoko, who vies with Midori for his affections. For 10 points, name this book about Toru Watanabe, a Haruki Murakami novel named for a Beatles song.
One character in this novel claims that a column of smoke comes from a school burning "a hundred and eighty girls' worth" of sanitary napkins.
Norwegian Wood [or Noruwei no Mori]