1Q84: Book 3
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4.5 • 53 Ratings
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Book Two of 1Q84 ended with Aomame standing on the Metropolitan Expressway with a gun between her lips.
She knows she is being hunted, and that she has put herself in terrible danger in order to save the man she loves.
But things are moving forward, and Aomame does not yet know that she and Tengo are more closely bound than ever.
Tengo is searching for Aomame, and he must find her before this world's rules loosen up too much.
He must find her before someone else does.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The massive new novel from international sensation Murakami (What I Talk About When I Talk About Running) sold out in his native Japan, where it was released in three volumes, and is bound to provoke a similar reaction in America, where rabid fans are unlikely to be deterred by its near thousand-page bulk. Nor should they be; Murakami's trademark plainspoken oddness is on full display in this story of lapsed childhood friends Aomame and Tengo, now lonely adults in 1984 Tokyo, whose destinies may be curiously intertwined. Aomame is a beautiful assassin working exclusively for a wealthy dowager who targets abusive men. Meanwhile Tengo, an unpublished writer and mathematics instructor at a cram school, accepts an offer to write a novel called Air Chrysalis based on a competition entry written by an enigmatic 17-year-old named Fuka-Eri. Fuka-Eri proves to be dangerously connected to the infamous Sakigake cult, whose agents are engaged in a bloody game of cat-and-mouse with Aomame. Even stranger is that two moons have appeared over Tokyo, the dawning of a parallel time line known as 1Q84 controlled by the all-powerful Little People. The condensing of three volumes into a single tome makes for some careless repetition, and casual readers may feel that what actually occurs doesn't warrant such length. But Murakami's fans know that his focus has always been on the quiet strangeness of life, the hidden connections between perfect strangers, and the power of the non sequitur to reveal the associative strands that weave our modern world. 1Q84 goes further than any Murakami novel so far, and perhaps further than any novel before it, toward exposing the delicacy of the membranes that separate love from chance encounters, the kind from the wicked, and reality from what people living in the pent-up modern world dream about when they go to sleep under an alien moon.
Customer Reviews
Tidal
The moons create a movement between parallel worlds, where the search for love is fulfilled - masterly expressed by Murakami. Could not put this down despite it being the second reading of this captivating story.
Second purchased book
I originally purchased this book as a hardback omnibus edition at the airport in Hong Kong.
I started to read it on the flight home to Perth in Australia, but when I was faced with such a heavy volume next to my bed I found that I was not reading it due to the size and weight.
After reading his next book on my iPad,I bit the bullet and purchased the 3 books and was able to enjoy reading without having to worry about trying to read a book about the size of 8 iPad pro tablets.
PS the book is the best read for our age
Poetic, fantastical and beautiful
It's hard to describe how difficult it was to put this book down. The chapters were like little sonnets collected perfectly into a larger poetic prose. Truly beautiful.