1Q84

by Haruki Murakami

Book Overview

"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 can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves." -- The New York Times Book Review The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around 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 unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled. As Aomame's and Tengo's narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigat? a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-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 ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307593312
• ISBN13: 9780307593313
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 944 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.6" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Great Novel

Amazing novel you should read it:)

IQ84 left me feeling cheated.

I started the book with great anticipation. I love a book that you can really get lost in. It was an engrossing tale. But after 900+ pages, I was sitting there flummoxed. Characters, who were important to the plot, were just dropped. Too many story lines left hanging. 🤔

Fantastic -zzz

It is a nice book!!