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. 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. 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. An instant
bestseller around the world 1Q84 is a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most
revered contemporary writers.
