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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