Haruki Murakami,Jay Rubin,Philip Gabriel
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. ,As Aomameâ€™s and Tengoâ€™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 investigator; 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 Orwellâ€™s â€” ,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,Magical Realism,Cultural,Japan,Science Fiction,Asian Literature,Japanese Literature,Contemporary,Literature,Novels,Science Fiction,Dystopia
1Q84