1Q84 (Unabridged)
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- $34.99
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- $34.99
Publisher Description
Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine)
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 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.
BONUS AUDIO: Audible interviews the translators of 1Q84, Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel.
Customer Reviews
Amazing!
I loved this book. I have read all Murakami's books. He is my favorite author. The depth of his characters and details of the world they live in keeping my riveted from page one.
Excellent
As always Murakami seamlessly blends function into everyday Japanese 80s life. Scenes and characters are described with such precision, you almost fell like looking at a that person or actually being in that place.
Loved it
ThIs is a long audiobook but well worth the time and the price. This is the first Murakami book I've read/listened to and I thoroughly enjoyed it. After listening to this one several times, I bought Murakami's "Norwegian Woods" and enjoyed that one too.