1Q84 - Book 1

Two ideal lovers are looking for each other without even realizing it, in a changing world, in a fluid, undefined time. But they are driven by anxiety, the frenzy of the encounter. Aomame and Tengo live side by side, traversing space and time, walking backwards on diaries and maps and risking everything in Murakami's highly poetic and dangerous universe. Secret brotherhoods, sects, evil overlords, ruthless killers, avengers, black magic stories, unprecedented passageways, revelatory cracks, a chrysalis in the clouds, psychedelia and tradition, haunting music, nostalgia, a glimpse of the moon - or moons. In the two moons of 1Q84, in this City of Cats. Murakami's much-discussed magnum opus is an unprecedented narrative spree, a feast of words, images, sensations and, when the phantasmagoria ends, what remains is nothing but a simple - and for this unimaginably exciting- love story, a love tale summed up in the disarming, insane, redemptive hand-holding.

Category: Foreign literature
Book age category: 18+
Form pages: 480
Dimensions: 14 x 21
Weight: 0.65 kg