“Murakami is like a magician who explains what he’s doing while doing the trick but yet manages to convince you that he has supernatural abilities… While everyone can tell a storey that resembles a dream, only a select few artists, such as this one, can make us feel as if we are dreaming ourselves.” —The Book Review of The New York TimesThe year is 1984, and Tokyo is the setting.
Aomame, a young woman, follows a taxi driver’s perplexing advice and begins to observe strange inconsistencies in the world around her. “Q is for ‘question mark.’ A universe that bears a question,” she realises as she enters 1Q84, a parallel life she calls 1Q84. Meanwhile, Tengo, an aspiring writer, takes on a dubious ghostwriting gig.