Biography
The country where Murakami was born.
What is Japan?
Generally speaking, the name of the narrator in these stories.
What is no name at all?
Instrument that was to be played at the recital that never happened.
What is the piano?
Where the monkey is from.
What is Shinegawa?
The definition and etymology of the word "dexterous".
What is skillful, from "right-handed'?
Name of the book we read.
What is First Person Singular?
The expression that the title "Cream" comes from.
What is "creme de la creme"?
Album carried by the girl, unforgettably to our narrator.
What is "With the Beatles"?
Accusation of the women in "First Person Singular."
What is the narrator has insulted her friend?
A first person singular pronoun.
What is I, me, or my.
Murakami's first name.
What is Haruki?
Where the narrator meets the monkey for the first time.
What is in a steam bath?
Style of music the narrator and his girlfriend listened to in "With the Beatles."
What is popular or easy listening or just bad?
The old man says this to the narrator in "Cream."
What is "a circle with no center"?
Definition and etymology of "occidental."
What is of the West from "of the setting sun."
Murakami's favorite sport.
What is baseball?
What the narrator is wearing in "First Person Singular."
What is a suit?
Name of the jazz saxophonist the narrator writes a fake review of.
Who is Charlie Parker?
The last scene in "With the Beatles."
The narrator meets up with his former girlfriend's brother in Tokyo.
Type of relationship the monkey claims he has with women.
What is "platonic"?
Murakami's first job.
What is running a jazz bar?
The message blaring from a car in "Cream."
What is a religious message?
One of the composers of whom the narrator of First Person Singular claims to know the birthdate.
Who are Bartok and Stravinski?
What the girlfriend's brother asks him to do as they sit together on a Sunday morning.
What is read him a story?
Reason given for the suicide of the narrator's teacher.
What is "ideological impasse"?