1Q84

✍ Scribed by Haruki Murakami

• Publisher: Knopf
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 812
• Edition: First Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

“Murakami is like a magician who explains what he’s doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers . . . But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves.” —The New York Times Book Review   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.

✦ Table of Contents

BOOK 1    APRIL-JUNE......Page 10
CHAPTER 3......Page 33
CHAPTER 4......Page 43
CHAPTER 5......Page 55
CHAPTER 6......Page 65
CHAPTER 7......Page 75
CHAPTER 8......Page 86
CHAPTER 9......Page 97
CHAPTER 10......Page 106
CHAPTER 11......Page 119
CHAPTER 12......Page 131
CHAPTER 13......Page 142
CHAPTER 14......Page 155
CHAPTER 15......Page 165
CHAPTER 16......Page 178
CHAPTER 17......Page 189
CHAPTER 18......Page 202
CHAPTER 19......Page 213
CHAPTER 20......Page 223
CHAPTER 21......Page 235
CHAPTER 22......Page 243
CHAPTER 23......Page 253
CHAPTER 24......Page 263
BOOK 2    JULY-SEPTEMBER......Page 275
CHAPTER 2......Page 288
CHAPTER 3......Page 301
CHAPTER 4......Page 314
CHAPTER 5......Page 322
CHAPTER 6......Page 331
CHAPTER 7......Page 343
CHAPTER 8......Page 350
CHAPTER 9......Page 363
CHAPTER 10......Page 372
CHAPTER 11......Page 383
CHAPTER 12......Page 395
CHAPTER 13......Page 405
CHAPTER 14......Page 416
CHAPTER 15......Page 425
CHAPTER 16......Page 438
CHAPTER 17......Page 448
CHAPTER 18......Page 458
CHAPTER 19......Page 466
CHAPTER 20......Page 480
CHAPTER 21......Page 484
CHAPTER 22......Page 491
CHAPTER 23......Page 498
CHAPTER 24......Page 506
BOOK 3    OCTOBER-DECEMBER......Page 520
CHAPTER 2......Page 532
CHAPTER 3......Page 541
 Ushikawa......Page 551
CHAPTER 5......Page 559
CHAPTER 6......Page 565
CHAPTER 7......Page 577
CHAPTER 8......Page 587
CHAPTER 9......Page 596
CHAPTER 10......Page 606
CHAPTER 11......Page 617
CHAPTER 12......Page 626
CHAPTER 13......Page 635
CHAPTER 14......Page 645
CHAPTER 15......Page 652
CHAPTER 16......Page 663
CHAPTER 17......Page 674
CHAPTER 18......Page 682
CHAPTER 19......Page 696
CHAPTER 20......Page 708
CHAPTER 21......Page 719
CHAPTER 22......Page 733
CHAPTER 23......Page 741
CHAPTER 24......Page 745
CHAPTER 25......Page 750
CHAPTER 26......Page 762
CHAPTER 27......Page 771
CHAPTER 28......Page 779
CHAPTER 29......Page 787
CHAPTER 30......Page 790
CHAPTER 31......Page 794
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR......Page 807
READER’S GUIDE1Q84......Page 808