1Q84

Book One, Book Two and Book Three

Hardcover

English language

Published Aug. 31, 2011 by Harvill Secker.

ISBN:
978-1-84655-549-7
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3 stars (14 reviews)

The novel is a sub-melodramatic sentimental metafictional love story in a ficticious world with two moons in the sky, a thriller packed with cults, assassinations and grotesque sex (newyorkobserver). The title is a play on the Japanese pronunciation of the year 1984 of George Orwell. The novel was longlisted for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize and placed No. 2 in Amazon.com's top books of the year.

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This is an uneven book. Lots of chapters of characters sharing what the reader already knows, lots of ellipses. Shallow erotica passages. I suppose when one is writing a 928-page novel not every page can be perfect, but there are more loose ends and unanswered questions than expected. I relate it to a late-period Beatles song that sounds like three songs squished together.

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Subjects

  • Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Tokyo (japan), fiction