FTP, name this Japanese author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood.
This man's latest novel is After Dark, set to be released in English in 2010. While watching a baseball game, he was suddenly inspired to write his first novel, Hear the Wind Sing. A translator has an asexual relationship with twin sisters named 208 and 209 in his second novel, Pinball 1973, which features the recurring characters "J" and "The Rat." Later novels include one about the subconscious of a human computer, Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World, and his most recently translated work, Kafka on the Shore, but he is best known for novels about a man in search of his cat and his wife and one about Japan in the 1960s. FTP, name this Japanese author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood.
This man's latest novel is After Dark, set to be released in English in 2010.
Haruki Murakami (accept names in either order)