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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, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.A surreal and fractured dose of storytelling that only Murakami cold write.
- Graham Morrison, five stars, Linux Voice
A surreal and fractured dose of storytelling that only Murakami cold write.
- Graham Morrison, five stars, Linux Voice
It’s pure, uncut Murakami.
Business Insider
Murakami's magnum opus
Japan Times
<b><i>1Q84 </i>has a range and sophistication that surpasses anything else in his oeuvre. It is his most achieved novel; an epic in which form and content are neatly aligned</b>... So like Murakami himself, I'll borrow from Orwell: <i>1Q84 </i>is quite simply doubleplusgood
Independent on Sunday
<i>1Q84 </i><b>reads like a cross between Stieg Larsson and Roberto Bolaño</b>... In its bones, this novel is a thriller
Daily Telegraph
A surreal twist on the formula of David Nicholl's <i>One Day</i>; fate preventing two soulmates from getting together from getting together for decades... Stieg Larsson enthusiasts may enjoy the novel too as Aomame could be Lisbeth Salander's Japanese cousin... What makes Murakami cool as well as popular is has metaphysical mischievousness, his playing around with the idea of alternate realities... <b>Every time you open <i>1Q84</i>, you get the sensation of falling down the rabbit hole, into a unique and addictive world</b>
Sunday Express
<b><i>1Q84 </i>is an extraordinary feat of sustained imagination</b>
Evening Standard
<b>[One of]<i> </i>.. the best books to really get your teeth into this winter... </b>Part thriller, part love story, the first print run sold out in one day in the author's native Japan
Grazia
A whole host of Murakami icons from talking cats to one-way portals all contribute to this rich and often perplexing mix. But ultimately, <i>1Q84</i> is a simple love story that ends on a metaphysical cliff-hanger...<b> a delicious paranormal stew</b>
Independent on Sunday