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1Q84
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
- Length: 46 hrs and 45 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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 realises, 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.
BONUS AUDIO: Audible interviews the translators of 1Q84, Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel.
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- suja
- 25-05-2017
An Interesting Experience
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
not sure? I would recommend it if they were looking for something really different to read.
Would you ever listen to anything by the authors again?
maybe? I think it depends on if im in the right mood to listen to that sot
What does the narrators bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
The narrators really gave the book a sense of reflection and tranquility. They really brought the book the 'Japan' feel. I don't know how else to explain it.
Do you think 1Q84 needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
YES!!! SO many unanswered questions!!!
Any additional comments?
I wouldn't call it a bad book - I wouldn't say I didn't like it... lets just say - it was an experience, definitely an acquired taste... but worth a try - its unusual
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- Douglas
- 16-06-2016
Disappointing
The voices used were irritating. A kind of odd whispered emotionless delivery. The story would I think have made a single book of around 300 pages. The story was very stretched out and by comparison to his other novels less inventive and less puzzling. What I could not determine was whether the performances directly affected my views on the story.
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- Lily
- 02-10-2017
Interesting story, very long but worth it
I did this this story was very long and in some points repetitive but overall I really enjoyed it. The narration was excellent and very entertaining and the story is really intricate and woven together tightly, much like murakami's other novels such as Kafka on the Shore and The Wind up Bird.
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- Yvonne Colledge
- 06-05-2015
loved it
I loved this story. was disappointed when it finished. Will highly recommend it. thank you
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- Justinecs
- 24-01-2018
Long strange but intriguing
Murakami at his most detailed and strangest. It seemed to go on a bit too much but it was still enjoyable. I found it very well narrated .
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- Tessa
- 14-02-2015
Captivated the entire time
The narration for this story is very well done, the book is so large and daunting that I don't think I could have maintained reading it as regularly as I did when listening to this audiobook. I love hearing the surreal and detailed descriptions and listening to this book provided a very convenient means of escape during the work week.
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- Kindle Customer
- 22-01-2020
Different
I love Japanese and have always wanted to read Japanese literature but this was extremely different then anything else I've read before. I will one day read this in Japanese but for now am happy to have listened to the English version. People seem to either like it or hate it but I just find this whole thing curious and the narrators voices are all to me calming.
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- Filip
- 08-05-2018
Beautiful story told with patience and care
For me 1Q84 is about falling in love with the details. Aomame, one of the protagonists, is a very detail oriented person and so Murakami (the author) spends time to paint a picture of various elements of her world. At time this might seem like too much detail, but it serves a purpose and reinforces the joy of resolving the subplots.
The book is beautifully narrated, giving the work a quality of a life performance. Especially the last few chapters, where both Tengo and Aomame get a chance to speak, are really touching.
Overall a wonderful book with great narration.
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- Alan Millett
- 22-09-2022
This book took over my life
What a tour de force!. Maybe you need to be a Murakami fan: it's long and probably not for the novice . But what storytelling, imagination and characters. He does repeat details but that makes it easy to follow On to my next Murkami book. Great combo narration too.
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- BejiQ
- 20-04-2023
Thought about the fee collector
Some memories are just like a HNK fee collector, yet he is not any regular collector, he will be banging your door with his palms and fists, shouting out loud with your names, condemning you for steeling or cheating, all you can do is to hold your breath and hide behind the door and not make any sound, hoping he will go away soon, no he is the consistent one, he comes in any time and will try to catch you off guard, then one day you will learn the only way to pay the HNK subscription fee, is through the process of self reconciliation and catharsis.
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