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1Q84 (2011)

by Haruki Murakami(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0307593312 (ISBN13: 9780307593313)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Knopf

review 1: It's impossible for me to actually explain what this book is about because of the length and the separate plots, but it's somewhat fascinating. My problem is that there are too many questions left unanswered. There are many metaphorical guns shown early in the story that never get used, and I found that aspect very frustrating. Still, it was an interesting and unique story. I'd probably give another one of his books a shot.
review 2: 1Q84 was quite a challenging reading for me, it consists of 3 books with a total of more than 1300 pages. It was also one of Murakami's work that I very anticipated, considering its surrealistic theme and its thickness.The book tells the story of two protagonists: Aomame and Tengo. Masami Aomame was a fitness and martial arts i... morenstructor who also has a distinguish ability of accupuncture and somehow may use her ability to 'eliminate' abusive criminals, sends them to the other side of the world. Meanwhile Tengo Kawana was a mathematics teacher and judo prodigy who likes writing fictions. Their fates are closely interwinted in a different world that they used to know. At the year of 1984, in this world of 1Q84 - as Aomame would recall ('Q' for or "the cat town" - as Tengo would recall, there are two moons in the sky. In this parallel metaphysical world, the descriptions in the book 'Air Chrysalis' - a fantasy book written by Tengo and Fuka-Eri (pen name of Eriko Fukada, a mysterious dyslexic yet clever student girl) becomes reality time to time. Aomame and Tengo, separately have to dechiper their own enigmatic life in this world of loneliness and strangeness before meet each other to move back to their normal world.Murakami describes every characters, places, thoughts, and situations so deeply and vividly readers are just like sunk into his magical realism world. He really has a grand picture of his work that he moves his characters freely without a haste, carefully depict their character's emotions, actions, and connections with an in-depth description. He is also use wonderful metaphorical expressions in every paragraphs of this fiction. This is really a good reading for those who admire metaphysical existence and lonely strong characters. less

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