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In a novel by this author, a professor at the Dolphin Hotel leads a character (20[3])to a house (20[1])owned by a man possessed (20[1])by an animal. One of this author’s protagonists works (20[1])as a human processor named “Calcutec.” One of this author’s (20[1])characters journeys across the country (20[1])after receiving a pastoral photograph from his friend (20[1])“Rat.” (20[1])In one of this author’s novels, a teenager describes supernatural (*) “Little People” (10[1])in her autobiographical novel Air Chrysalis. (10[8])That novel by this (10[1])author (10[1])is set in dual (10[1])alternate realities (10[1])that converge in a fictionalized version of 1984. (10[4])A novel by this author opens with Toru (10[1])Okada (10[2])looking (10[1])for his missing cat. (10[2])For 10 points, name this author of 1Q84 (10[1])and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. ■END■ (10[2])

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