{"id":1166,"date":"2013-01-22T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/catalog\/display.pperl?isbn=9780307476463"},"modified":"2013-01-22T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T05:30:00","slug":"1q84-by-haruki-murakami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2013\/01\/22\/1q84-by-haruki-murakami\/","title":{"rendered":"1Q84 by Haruki Murakami"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1Q84<\/a>
Written by<\/b> Haruki Murakami<\/a><\/h3>\n

Trade Paperback<\/b>, 1184 pages | Vintage | Fiction – Literary | $16.95<\/b> | January 22, 2013 | 978-0-307-47646-3 (0-307-47646-4)<\/p>\n

“Murakami is like a magician who explains what he’s doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers . . . But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it’s the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves.” —The New York Times Book Review<\/i>
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The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s—1Q84<\/i> 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.<\/p>\n


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