'The international bestseller from one of the world's greatest
living novelists' - Guardian
Shortlisted for the 2013 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 and running a jazz bar in downtown
Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him
suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the
Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following
year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled
Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood,
published in 1987, which turned Murakami from a writer into a
phenomenon. His books became bestsellers, were translated into many
languages, including English, and the door was thrown wide open to
Murakami's unique and addictive fictional universe.
Murakami writes with admirable discipline, producing ten pages a
day, after which he runs ten kilometres (he began long-distance
running in 1982 and has participated in numerous marathons and
races), works on translations, and then reads, listens to records
and cooks. His passions colour his non-fiction output, from What I
Talk About When I Talk About Running to Absolutely On Music, and
they also seep into his novels and short stories, providing
quotidian moments in his otherwise freewheeling flights of
imaginative inquiry. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,
1Q84 and Men Without Women, his distinctive blend of the mysterious
and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant
readers, ensuring Murakami's place as one of the world's most
acclaimed and well-loved writers.
A surreal and fractured dose of storytelling that only Murakami
cold write.
*Linux Voice*
A surreal and fractured dose of storytelling that only Murakami
cold write.
*Linux Voice*
It’s pure, uncut Murakami.
*Business Insider*
Murakami's magnum opus
*Japan Times*
1Q84 has a range and sophistication that surpasses anything else in
his oeuvre. It is his most achieved novel; an epic in which form
and content are neatly aligned... So like Murakami himself, I'll
borrow from Orwell: 1Q84 is quite simply doubleplusgood
*Independent on Sunday*
1Q84 reads like a cross between Stieg Larsson and Roberto Bolaño...
In its bones, this novel is a thriller
*Daily Telegraph*
A surreal twist on the formula of David Nicholl's One Day; fate
preventing two soulmates from getting together from getting
together for decades... Stieg Larsson enthusiasts may enjoy the
novel too as Aomame could be Lisbeth Salander's Japanese cousin...
What makes Murakami cool as well as popular is has metaphysical
mischievousness, his playing around with the idea of alternate
realities... Every time you open 1Q84, you get the sensation of
falling down the rabbit hole, into a unique and addictive world
*Sunday Express*
1Q84 is an extraordinary feat of sustained imagination
*Evening Standard*
[One of] .. the best books to really get your teeth into this
winter... Part thriller, part love story, the first print run sold
out in one day in the author's native Japan
*Grazia*
A whole host of Murakami icons from talking cats to one-way portals
all contribute to this rich and often perplexing mix. But
ultimately, 1Q84 is a simple love story that ends on a metaphysical
cliff-hanger... a delicious paranormal stew
*Independent on Sunday*
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