Just like all the Haruki Murakami’s books 1Q84 has also the characteristics of being surreal but in the same time dealing with realism. Haruki Murakami has the ability to imagine and portrait those imagination with words that justify the objective.
1Q84 follows the life from the perspective of two people Aomame and Tengo. Aomame is a fitness instructor and also works as an assassin with a friend of hers named Dowager. She has the ability to pin-point a location in the back of a person’s neck that can be used to kill a person that can seem like a heart attack. Dowager is a old women who has taken the responsibility upon herself to punish men who are abusing women whether through violence of sexual abuse.
Tengo is a Cram school mathematics teacher and also an aspiring fiction writer. Tengo and Aomame both are unknowingly doing something which may lead to risk of their life. Tengo is approached by his friend who is a big deal in publishing industry to rewrite a novel, which has been written by a seventeen year old girl named Fuka Eri. His friend wants the book to be recognized as well as win a new writer’s award. In doing so they tap into something they should not be a part of, something that is dangerous.
The book is about the experience of the girl who has witnessed something very bizarre from the normal world.
1Q84 is a very dense book with more than 1300 pages. The book is divided into three parts, making it a trilogy. But the writing is so good you won’t even notice how quickly you are going. Murakami has a way to telling even a simple thing in a manner which don’t feel boring. I would suggest the book to anyone who wants to read something surreal and imaginative.
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