Kafka on the Shore - 2024 ACF Winter

Question

A character in this novel who cannot read or write tries to stop a man known as Johnnie Walker from harvesting the souls of cats for a flute. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this novel in which Nakata loses his memory after the Rice Bowl Hill Incident. This novel’s title character runs away from home and meets Miss Saeki, who may be his mother, and the transgender librarian Oshima.

ANSWER: Kafka on the Shore [or Umibe no Kafuka]

[10e] This author wrote about the amnesiac Nakata in Kafka on the Shore and Toru Okada’s search for his missing cat in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

ANSWER: Haruki Murakami [or Murakami Haruki]

[10h] A mathematician can only form 80 minutes of memories after a car accident in The Housekeeper and the Professor by this author, who also wrote about an island where the title Memory Police enforces collective amnesia.

ANSWER: Yōko Ogawa [or Ogawa Yōko]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	7	21.43	100%	86%	29%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	7	17.14	86%	57%	29%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	6	20.00	100%	83%	17%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	7	18.57	100%	57%	29%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	10	17.00	100%	40%	30%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	10	12.00	80%	40%	0%

Data


Berkeley B	Stanford L	10	10	0	20
Berkeley C	Stanford A	0	10	0	10
Stanford M	Berkeley A	0	10	0	10
Bard A	Princeton A	10	10	10	30
Columbia A	Rutgers A	10	10	0	20
Johns Hopkins A	Penn State B	0	10	0	10
Penn A	Lehigh A	10	10	0	20
Haverford A	Penn B	10	10	0	20
Penn State A	Rutgers C	10	10	10	30
Hopkins B	Columbia B	10	10	0	20
Miami	Indiana B	0	10	0	10
Purdue C	Notre Dame	0	0	0	0
UChicago B	Purdue B	10	10	0	20
UChicago D	Purdue D	10	10	10	30
SIUE A	UChicago A	10	10	0	20
UIUC A	WashU B	10	10	10	30
Northwestern A	WashU D	0	10	0	10
Kenyon B (DII)	CWRU A (UG)	10	10	0	20
Michigan A	CWRU C (UG)	10	10	10	30
Michigan State C (UG)	Michigan State A	10	10	0	20
Michigan B	Michigan State B (UG)	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A (UG)	Michigan D (DII)	10	10	0	20
CWRU B (UG)	Ohio State C (DII)	10	10	0	20
Iowa	Central Oklahoma	0	10	0	10
Vassar B	McGill E	0	10	0	10
Mississippi State	Texas B	0	10	0	10
NYU A	WUSTL A	10	10	10	30
Oregon State	Texas D	10	10	0	20
Missouri	Texas A	10	10	10	30
Vassar A	Ole Miss	10	10	0	20
UF B	Florida Tech A	10	10	0	20
UF A	Florida Tech B	0	10	0	10
UCF A	UCF B	0	10	0	10
UF C	UF E	0	10	0	10
Florida State University A	UF F	0	10	0	10
Birmingham	Cambridge C	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Imperial B	0	10	10	20
Durham A	Cambridge B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge D	Warwick A	0	10	0	10
Manchester	Edinburgh	0	10	0	10
Imperial A	Oxford B	0	10	0	10
Bristol B	LSE B	10	10	0	20
Oxford A	Bristol A	10	10	10	30
Southampton A	Warwick B	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt	Durham B	10	10	0	20
Amherst A	A Brandeis Supreme	10	10	0	20
Clark A	Bowdoin A	0	0	0	0
Diamond Brandeis	BU B	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	Carabrandeis	10	10	0	20
Northeastern A	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
Tufts B	MIT A	10	10	0	20
Williams A	Bowdoin B	0	10	0	10
Brandeises Brew	Yale A	0	0	0	0
Yale B	Boston University A	0	10	0	10
Brown A	Yale C	10	10	0	20