1Q84
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4.1
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Haruki Murakami
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • 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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Author
Haruki Murakami
Pages
944
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2011-10-25
ISBN
0307957020 9780307957023
Ratings
Google: 3.5
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JeLlana C
"Well, it was ok. At least the couple's destiny was tied up nicely in a neat little package. Beyond that, it doesn't necessarily make me want to go right out and start reading another Murakami novel.<br/><br/>Others have said the repetition in this book is annoying (for me it was great because my memory sucks and the constant rephrasing and reviewing events through another character's eyes helped me a lot) but the part I found most annoying was the fact that Murakami does a lot of "telling" in this novel (and perhaps his others) instead of "showing". I felt at times like I was reading more of a book report than an actual story. It was quite off-putting at times.<br/><br/>I've reaffirmed for myself though that I am just not into fantastical literature.....I hesitate to even call this genre "literature".....snooty I know. But it's how I feel. I have better luck suspending belief in a science fiction or horror novel than I do this type of writing. <br/><br/>Maybe one day when I get bored and there is nothing else to read (haha), I will pick up another Murakami novel."
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