1Q84 (Paperback)

Haruki Murakami

ISBN 10: 0345802934 / ISBN 13: 9780345802934

Published by Random House USA Inc, New York, 2012

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Paperback. A deluxe boxed set edition of Haruki Murakamis bestselling masterpiece, featuring the full novel split across three gorgeously designed paperback editions in a see-through case, with a removeable sticker on the shrink wrap packaging Brilliant . . . an irresistibly engaging literary fantasy.The Washington Post The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi drivers enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84Q 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 Aomames and Tengos 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 Orwells1Q84 is a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers. Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 1Q84 (Paperback)
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc, New York
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345802934
• ISBN 13: 9780345802934
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

A deluxe boxed set edition of Haruki Murakami’s bestselling masterpiece, featuring the full novel split across three gorgeously designed paperback editions in a see-through case, with a removeable sticker on the shrink wrap packaging
 
“Brilliant . . . an irresistibly engaging literary fantasy.”—The Washington Post
 
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 a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.

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.