1Q84 Trilogy

Qamarun... two worlds... girl... boy... love story... atmosphere of magic and fantasy, and a journey of self-discovery, and a story of two parallel existences, and a fictional world rivaling George Orwell's world... 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami is so far his most ambitious novel, a deeply impactful, captivating, and highly enjoyable work. It is a unique masterpiece and an artistic achievement, an experience filled with intelligence, excitement, and suspense, which caused a big stir in Japan upon its publication, with its first edition sold out in one day, and one million copies sold in its first month. * * * "If this novel is like a house of fun, it is that fun taken to an extreme seriousness, where entering it risks your beliefs." (Newsweek magazine) "A great novel that fulfills the primary function of literature: to redraw and reshape the world through imagination... At the heart of 1Q84 lies the question of love, how we find it and hold onto it." (Los Angeles Times) "Oumame and Tengu walk toward each other as if they are divers carving their way toward the surface of the water. When I finished reading 1Q84, I felt as if I, too, was rising toward the surface; even days after reading it, the world no longer seemed the same to me." (The Christian Science Monitor)