He was himself the owner of a jazz bar called "Peter Cat," but the most important character in his early novels was called Rat.
The title of this writer's novel Pinball, 1973 was a play on a title by Kenzaburo Oe and it introduced J, a bar owner who also appeared in A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance, Dance, Dance. He was himself the owner of a jazz bar called "Peter Cat," but the most important character in his early novels was called Rat. In the 1980's, he wrote Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and Norwegian Wood, but he is more famous for a novel about a lazy man named Toru Okada whose cat disappears. For ten points, identify this Japanese author of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
The title of this writer's novel Pinball, 1973 was a play on a title by Kenzaburo Oe and it introduced J, a bar owner who also appeared in A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance, Dance, Dance.
Haruki {Murakami}