In addition to "The Little Green Monster", included in the collection The Elephant Vanishes, this author also wrote a novel in which Johnnie Walker tries to kill cats to make a flute, and the title character seeks his mother and sister and reads A Thousand and One Nights.
This author's first novel features a protagonist who romances a nine-fingered girl in his eighteen days before going back to college. The student's friend names the series of which Hear the Wind Sing is the first; the Trilogy of the Rat by this author also includes Pinball, 1973 and A Wild Sheep Chase. A short story by this author sees the title creature confess its love for a woman, only to be killed by her imagining its torture. In addition to "The Little Green Monster", included in the collection The Elephant Vanishes, this author also wrote a novel in which Johnnie Walker tries to kill cats to make a flute, and the title character seeks his mother and sister and reads A Thousand and One Nights. The author of a novel in which Naoko's suicide drives Toru Watanabe into a wandering spell, this is, for 10 points, what author of Norwegian Wood and Kafka on the Shore?
This author's first novel features a protagonist who romances a nine-fingered girl in his eighteen days before going back to college.
Haruki {Murakami}