Haruki Murakami,Jay Rubin
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.,A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driverâ€™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 â€”â€œQ is for â€˜question mark.â€™ A world that bears a question.â€ 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. ,A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwellâ€™sâ€”1Q84 is Haruki Murakamiâ€™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
Fiction,Fantasy,Cultural,Japan,Asian Literature,Japanese Literature,Magical Realism,Contemporary,Novels,Science Fiction,Cultural,Asia,Science Fiction,Dystopia
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