- Title:
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1Q84 - Book 1
- Written by:
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Haruki Murakami
- Read by:
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Marc Vietor; Mark Boyett; Alison Hiroto
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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13
- Duration:
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15 hours 20 minutes
- Published:
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November 08 2011
- Available Date:
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March 01 2013
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781469213613
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary; General Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Brilliance audio
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Price
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International bestseller
1Q84 is a near-past story inspired by Orwells futuristic 1984, told through the bizarre experiences of two protagonists searching for each other.
The year is 1984. Aomame sits in a taxi on the expressway in Tokyo. Her work is not the kind which can be discussed in public but she is in a hurry to carry out an assignment and, with the traffic at a stand-still, the driver proposes a solution. She agrees, but as a result of her actions starts to feel increasingly detached from the real world.
She has been on a top-secret mission, and her next job will lead her to encounter the apparently superhuman founder of a religious cult.
Meanwhile, Tengo is leading a nondescript life but wishes to become a writer. He inadvertently becomes involved in a strange affair surrounding a literary prize to which a mysterious 17-year-old girl has submitted her remarkable first novel. It seems to be based on her own experiences and moves readers in unusual ways. Can her story really be true?
Both Aomame and Tengo notice that the world has grown strange; both realise that they are indispensable to each other. While their stories influence one another, at times by accident and at times intentionally, the two come closer and closer to intertwining.
'Eerie, suspenseful and packed full of gorgeous ordinary details and provocative extraordinary events, Murakami takes weighty themes and delivers a compulsive tale that is funny, fresh and intensely surreal. Unmissable.'
Marie Claire
'It is a work of maddening brilliance and gripping originality, deceptively casual in style, but vibrating with wit, intellect and ambition.'
The Times