About this book

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.

1Q84 · 3 books

In publication order
  1. 2 1Q84 Book 2 2009 This book
  2. 3 1Q84 Book 3 2010
  3. 1Q84 Book 1 2009
All 3 in order

Subjects

  • alternative reality
  • asesinato
  • asesinos
  • assassination
  • assassins
  • authors
  • autores
  • chang pian xiao shuo
  • college teachers
  • detective and mystery stories
  • dystopian
  • ficción
  • fiction
  • general
  • japanese fiction
  • japanese fiction -- 20th century -- translations into english
  • japanese literature
  • literary
  • maestros universitarios
  • magical realism
  • man-woman relationship
  • man-woman relationships
  • near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • new list 20111231
  • new york times bestseller
  • new york times reviewed
  • novelists
  • nyt:hardcover_fiction=2011-12-31
  • relaciones hombre-mujer
  • teachers
  • tokyo (japan), fiction
  • translations into chinese
  • translations into portuguese