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November 2011
On Sale: October 25, 2011
944 pages
ISBN: 0307593312
EAN: 9780307593313
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Thriller
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
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 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.
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