Greg Who Cooks
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Has anybody read 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami?
I'm on the public library reserve list and hoping to read it soon. Our library purchased almost 80 copies so it must very popular. It looks like I'll have to wait about 2 months to read it. (I'm about #230 for 80 copies at three weeks until you have to return it. Maybe sooner if everybody reads them quickly then returns them so others can have at them.)
“Murakami is like a magician who explains what he’s doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers . . . But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves.” —The New York Times Book Review
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’s—1Q84 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.
source: Amazon.com
I'm on the public library reserve list and hoping to read it soon. Our library purchased almost 80 copies so it must very popular. It looks like I'll have to wait about 2 months to read it. (I'm about #230 for 80 copies at three weeks until you have to return it. Maybe sooner if everybody reads them quickly then returns them so others can have at them.)