An old man who talks to cats vs. a whiskey-drinking cat-killer named Johnny Walker, and a teenager named Kafka who runs away to live in a library and talks to a voice in his head named Crow. WTF, it's Haruki Murakami.
One-line summary: Unemployed loser Toru Okada goes on a trip to rival Alice's when his wife disappears, but his rabbit-hole is a well, the vanishing cat shares his evil brother-in-law's name, and his quest is weirder and bloodier.