"Critics have variously likened him to Raymond Carver, Raymond Chandler, Arthur C. Clarke, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, Bret Easton Ellis and Thomas Pynchon - a roster so ill assorted as to suggest Murakami is in fact an original" (New York Times)
The year is 1984. Aomame sits in a taxi on the expressway in Tokyo.
Her work is not the kind which can be discussed in public but she is in a hurry to carry out an assignment and, with the traffic at a stand-still, the driver proposes a solution. She agrees, but as a result of her actions starts to feel increasingly detached from the real world. She has been on a top-secret mission, and her next job will lead her to encounter the apparently superhuman founder of a religious cult.
Meanwhile, Tengo is leading a nondescript life but wishes to become a writer. He inadvertently becomes involved in a strange affair surrounding a literary prize to which a mysterious seventeen-year-old girl has submitted her remarkable first novel. It seems to be based on her own experiences and moves readers in unusual ways. Can her story really be true?
Aomame and Tengo's stories influence one another, at times by accident and at times intentionally, as the two come closer and closer to intertwining. As 1Q84 accelerates towards its conclusion, both are pursued by persons and forces they do not know and cannot understand. As they begin to decipher more about the strange world into which they have slipped, so they sense their destinies converging. What they cannot know is whether they will find one another before they are themselves found.
1Q84 is a magnificent and fully-imagined work of fiction - a thriller, a love-story and a mind-bending ode to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. It is a world from which the reader emerges stunned and altered.
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Anbieter: Caerwen Books, Forrestfield, WA, Australien
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st English language edition of the complete Trilogy. Unclipped jacket. Over 1.3 kilos packed. Will require additional postage to most destinations. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 045060
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Anbieter: Manyhills Books, Traralgon, VIC, Australien
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Hardcover. 925 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Harvill Secker, London, 2011. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in good condition and comes in good dust jacket. More specifically: Covers have slight soiling. Dust jacket has light creasing. Edges of dust jacket have moderate bumping. . Pages are lightly tanned and lightly creased. Page 925 has a top corner page tear and creasing, the next 3 pages after 925 have had the corner of the page bent and due to a printing cut error the pages extend past the size of the other pages. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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's1Q84 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. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN/EAN: 9781846555497. Inventory No: 24090077. This item is heavy and may require additional shipping costs for destinations outside Australia. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 24090077
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First English Edition. Translated from the Japanese byJay Rubin and Philip Gabriel. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. ; 240 x 160mm; 925 pages. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 24551
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Note: 1st edition thus (UK English-language). Shelf wear to edges of DJ; mild tanning to pages (but more marked at head edge) with some foxing to edges of book block. This is a heavy book and will attract extra postage costs if being sent overseas. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 097584
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Anbieter: Corner of a Foreign Field, Tokyo, TOKYO, Japan
Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. 2011.Hardcover.New.925 pages.Ships from Japan.Usually ships in 1-2 working days. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9473
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