1Q84

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Publication Date: October 25, 2011

1Q84

“Murakami is like a magician who explains what he’s doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers . . . But while anyone will tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who will make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves.” —The New York Times Book Review

The year is 1984 and town is Tokyo.

A young girl named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the planet round her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its uncommon author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come back unraveled.

As Aomame’s and Tengo’s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we tend to learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever nearer: a stunning, dyslexic teenage girl with a distinctive vision; a mysterious non secular cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused girls; a hideously ugly private investigator; a delicate-mannered nonetheless ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent tv-fee collector.

A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s—1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most bold endeavor nevertheless: an immediate best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.

1Q84