Coleccion Andanzas: 1q84 (Libros 1 y 2) (Edition 6) (Paperback)

from sarahbest

It's hard to write much about this book's main characters, structure, and plot without giving away its joys. The novel, which exceeds 900 pages in length, is in some ways an old fashioned mystery. The main trajectory and atmosphere of the novel reminds me of the film Chinatown and of old Humphrey...

from johnwbeha

This is the first of Haruki Murakami books that I have read and I am certainly going to read the rest of his oeuvre, although I am totally sure that this is not typical of them. The inside back dust cover describes 1Q84 as hypnotically addictive, which I think is very accurate. I usually read boo...

from MarkYoung

A dream book. Were the first stories ever told dreams? This story has all the qualities of a dream; even the quality, that the strangest things seem somehow to be real, while at the same time unreal.Like when you accept calmly that you can fly in a dream, while knowing that it is strange, while e...

from polarbear123

I can understand why some people wh have reviewed this book found it difficult to get through. The first part could seem quite slow at times, however as usual, Murakami seems to touch you in a way that no other author can once you get past the surface of any of his stories and begin to understand...

from missizicks

1Q84 is a real tour de force of a novel, mixing present day surreality with sci-fi, long lost love, and the tenacity of self-belief. I remember seeing the book in Japanese when we were in Tokyo long before it was published in the UK and wishing that I could read Japanese well enough to tackle Mur...