It beautifully showcases Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious novel yet, 1Q84-a love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s.Ī young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. This deluxe three-volume paperback boxed set-gorgeously designed editions in a see-through case, with a removeable sticker on the shrink wrap packaging-is a collector’s item in the making. A love story two decades in the making made complicated by a surreal best-seller and a mysteriously powerful religious cult, this mega-novel is well worth all of its 1100 pages. Charles BottomleyĪ masterful, sprawling, genre-bending odyssey from one of fiction's most well-renowned contemporary masters, 1Q84 tells the interweaving stories of Aomame and Tengo, immediately two of the most effortlessly empathetic protagonists I've encountered. Jump in: 1Q84 may weigh enough to kill a small animal from a great height, but Murakami takes even the weightiest concerns and considers them in lighter-than-air prose. In fact, this wild fantasy of parallel worlds, fraudulent novels, cults, lady assassins and crank bill collectors is one of the best jumping-on points for newcomers to Murakami's unique work. With all the late-night bookstore openings, Sunday supplement profiles and millions of copies sold around the globe, it's easy to be over-awed by Haruki Murakami's latest.

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