This novel’s narrator uses the archaic pronoun “wagahai” (“WAG-uh-high”), which appears in its original-language title. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Natsume Sōseki (“nat-SOO-may soh-SEK-ee”) novel whose narrator eventually drowns in a rain barrel after mocking his owner Mr Sneaze (“sneeze”).
ANSWER: I Am a Cat [or Wagahai wa Neko de Aru]
[10e] Other cat-loving Japanese writers include this author of Norwegian Wood, who depicted a search for a missing cat in his novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
ANSWER: Haruki Murakami [or Murakami Haruki]
[10m] Nakata searches for lost cats and murders the cat-killer Johnnie Walker in this Murakami novel, in which a runaway teenager reads Sōseki novels in a library and renames himself after the title person.
ANSWER: Kafka on the Shore [or Umibe no Kafuka]
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