1Q84 The first book

Author's name: Haruki Murakami Publisher: Arab Cultural Center Year of publication: 2009 About the book: Haruki Murakami's has until now his most ambitious novel, a deep-impact novel, captivating and enjoyable to the utmost limits. It is a remarkable work, a masterpiece, and an experience filled with intelligence, excitement, and suspense, where it caused a big buzz in Japan upon its publication, and its first edition sold out in one day, with one million copies sold in its first month. "If this novel is like a house of fun, it is that fun deeply rooted in seriousness, and when you enter it, you risk your convictions." Newsweek magazine "A great novel that fulfills the main function of literature, which is to redraw and reshape the world through imagination... at the core of this world lies the question of love, how we find it, and how we hold onto it." Los Angeles Times "Omame and Tengu walk towards each other as if they are divers carving their way to the surface of the water." When I finished reading the novel, I felt as if I myself was rising to the surface, and even days after reading it, the world still did not seem like what it was before. Christian Science Monitor