About When I Talk About Running.
This author wrote about his marathon experiences in his What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. The narrator assists The Librarian in reading dreams from the skulls of unicorns in the even-numbered chapters, and a Calcutec narrates the odd-numbered chapters in this man's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World. The author of books about (*) Toru Okuda's cat and the friendship between the son of sculptor Koichi Tamura and cat-finder Nakata, this is, for ten points, what Japanese author of The Wind- Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore?
This author wrote about his marathon experiences in his What I Talk
{Haruki} {Murakami} (accept either and in either order)