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Haruki Murakami

1Q84: Book 3 Hardcover – 25 Oct. 2011

by Haruki Murakami (Author)

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Book Two of 1Q84 ends with Aomame standing on the Metropolitan Expressway with a gun between her lips. She has come tantalisingly close to meeting her beloved Tengo only to have him slip away at the last minute. The followers of the cult leader she assassinated are determined to track her down and she has been living in hiding, completely isolated from the world.

However, Tengo has also resolved to find Aomame. As the two of them uncover more and more about the strange world of 1Q84, and the mysterious Little People, their longing for one another grows. Can they find each other before they themselves are found?

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1Q84
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368 pages
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English
Publisher

Harvill Secker
Publication date

25 Oct. 2011
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16.2 x 3.3 x 24 cm
ISBN-10

1846554055
ISBN-13

978-1846554056
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"It is a work of maddening brilliance and gripping originality, deceptively casual in style, but vibrating with wit, intellect and ambition"--The Times

"The Japanese spellbinder [has] conjured an alternative 1984 in Tokyo and – via his addictively cunning story-telling – made us care about the people within an outlandish plot cults, conspiracies and resistance"--The Independent

"What makes Murakami cool as well as popular is has metaphysical mischievousness, his playing around with the idea of alternate realities... Every time you open 1Q84, you get the sensation of falling down the rabbit hole, into a unique and addictive world"--Sunday Express

About the Author

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers’ award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, which turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. His books became bestsellers, were translated into many languages, including English, and the door was thrown wide open to Murakami’s unique and addictive fictional universe.

Murakami writes with admirable discipline, producing ten pages a day, after which he runs ten kilometres (he began long-distance running in 1982 and has participated in numerous marathons and races), works on translations, and then reads, listens to records and cooks. His passions colour his non-fiction output, from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running to Absolutely On Music, and they also seep into his novels and short stories, providing quotidian moments in his otherwise freewheeling flights of imaginative inquiry. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84 and Men Without Women, his distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring Murakami’s place as one of the world’s most acclaimed and well-loved writers.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvill Secker; First Edition (25 Oct. 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1846554055
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1846554056
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.2 x 3.3 x 24 cm

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Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and the most recent of his many international honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V. S. Naipaul.

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M. J. Tavener

The Ending

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 July 2023

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The final book in this series of three doesn’t disappoint. The action keeps you turning the pages with increasing anticipation. A perfect ending, but leaves a lot of unanswered questions. Highly recommended!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 July 2023

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Fast shipping and the book is amazing.

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beaslie

Another skillfully written novel by Murakami

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 January 2012

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I LOVED this trilogy and for me, Book 3 was the perfect final book.

If you like stories that finish with all the loose ends tied off, all threads concluded and zero ambiguity then you will be frustrated by this book.

If however you enjoy the process of reading, and appreciate writing and storytelling as an art form and you are prepared to read beyond face value, then you should definitely read this book.

A lot of reviews have, amongst other things, focussed on the repetitive nature of the novels, the unanswered questions, the irritating near misses and the frustration of the ending.

In my opinion these are exciting devices and not aspects to criticise, and I could spend a long time discussing why I think this is a brilliantly written volume of novels. But I won't. I just have a couple of points to make and then I think you should read the book and make up your own minds.
- Repetitive nature of the books
Murakami lets us experience each narrator's experience as they do, not everything is clear to them all at the same time. I found it intriguing to find out how each new event was revealed to them in different ways in order to build up the whole mysterious story for the reader and the way events were intertwined with cause/effect/misreadings.
- The unanswered questions
The reader is not omnipotent. We learn little more than the characters of the novels themselves. Fuki-Eri does not know what the Air Chrysalis or Little People are. And the other characters make their own meaning out of them. Why would Murakami then hypocritically dictate to the reader what they represent or mean?
- Irritating near misses
Have you never read Shakespeare? `Twelfth Night' is a great example. Life is dictated by coincidences and near-misses; even if yours isn't then it's called `suspension of disbelief'.
- The frustration of the ending
Personally, I hope Murakami decides to write Book 4, 5, 6+ about T and A's ongoing adventures; I feel bereft without them. If he'd ended Book 3 with an "and they all lived happily ever after" I'd have been devastated. I appreciate creative works that leave the ending open so you can make up your own stories.

Like all the Murakami novels I have read, these are skilfully written. He is a very talented author, and very generous too. Throughout the books the narrators repeatedly drop hints to read beyond the surface by making references to writing, stories and interpretive readings. By taking the novels at face value, you're doing Murakami a disservice. At its very heart these are books about a book, what bigger hint do you need that is more than a 1000 page tale but an exploration of an art form?

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OneOfThoseBookLovers

Thriller...with no answers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 September 2013

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The three books in the trilogy together make for an addictive read. Right from the first few pages into the first book, the plot is already gripping. A first time reader of Murakami, I thought that this trilogy shows him to be a master of the technique of creating suspense. The way that reality and fantasy are interwoven in the novel is also captivating, and reminds me somewhat of Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. For most of the trilogy moreover, I also thought that IQ84 resembled His Dark Materials perhaps in the symbolic significance of its fantastical elements on 'real life'. But I was to be proved wrong.

(**Spoiler Alert**)

Part of the addictiveness of the trilogy comes from the mystery of the way the the world IQ84 worked, with its 'Little People' and whatnot. For me at least, I powered through the book, at first wanting to know how it all fits together, and then reaaallly wanting to know how it all fits together. But the end of the novel simply does not satisfy. Yes, so it all resounds with the epigraph '... But it wouldn't be make-believe//If you believed in me.' - so perhaps readers are asked to leave behind the mysteries of the world of IQ84, because it doesnt matter. All that matters is love. In this case, Tengo and Aomame's love. And I suppose the long suspense readers have endured to find out what the 'Little People' are etc, all serve to hammer in the point that it all REALLy doesnt matter.

But practically speaking.. The style of the novels, quite concise and realistic in my opinion, really didn't set readers up for this romantic notion to end the novel.
So as much as the point, that love is the be-all and end-all, is put across, the ending is frustrating and dissatisfying as well as erudite.

Overall however, a riveting and interesting read. Worth a try, although it takes a while to get through the whole trilogy.

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