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1Q84

By Haruki Murakami
Series: Vintage International
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Set in Tokyo during 1984, 1Q84 follows Aomame, a young woman who senses she has entered a parallel world, and Tengo, an aspiring writer caught in a mysterious ghostwriting project. Their stories intertwine amid a dystopian landscape filled with a religious cult, a unique dyslexic girl, and unusual characters. Combining elements of love, mystery, fantasy, and self-discovery, this novel offers a richly imaginative narrative from Haruki Murakami.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for readers who enjoy literary fiction with strong elements of fantasy and mystery, as well as fans of complex, character-driven stories exploring parallel worlds and dystopian themes.

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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 in a tremendous feat of imagination from one of the most revered contemporary writers.

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A tremendous accomplishment. It does every last blessed thing a masterpiece is supposed to—and a few things we never even knew to expect.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Brilliant . . . an irresistibly engaging literary fantasy.” —The Washington Post

A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century

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 realises, 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 unravelled.

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 a striking feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.

Series: Vintage International

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ISBN: 9780307476463

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 January 2013

Country: United States

Imprint: Random House Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 49.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 845g

Pages: 1184

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Fiction General Fiction Haruki Murakami Literary Fiction Penguin Books Series: Vintage International

About the Author

HARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and one of the most recent of his many international honors is the Cino Del Duca World Prize, whose previous recipients include Jorge Luis Borges, Ismail Kadare, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Joyce Carol Oates.

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