I highly recommend this to people who enjoy fantasy,science fiction, magic realism, narrative studies, Eng Lit majors, people who love Japan, Murakami, etc. It was nice listening to them- they are like the receding and returning tides of the ocean (yes, a weird simile, but you'll get what I mean if you listen long enough). In addition, there is a lot of layering to this novel, where there is the slightly nuanced repetition of story lines.
I've read a lot of Murakami's novels before, but this one is particularly long. I don't think I could get through this book by reading the print version. His communiaction with the little people suggests his constructedness - he is aware of his fictionality - he knows he is merely a figment of an author's imagination, and is bound to do what the little people tell him to do. There is a sense of melancholy in that some characters, such as the Leader, are unable to be something other than how they are figured in the narrative.
There are subtle differences in the way your world is articulated - mirroring the editing process. To top it off the pesky author of the novel you live in keeps changing his mind. Imagine how it would feel if you were a character within a narrative world - and knew it.
Imagine if you were a character within a book. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled.Īs 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.Ī 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.īONUS AUDIO: Audible interviews the translators of 1Q84, Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel. Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. She has entered, she realises, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - 'Q' is for 'question mark'. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her.
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