“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< span>
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The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo < p>

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>

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>

A love story a mystery a fantasy a novel of self discovery a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s—1Q84< span> 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>