1Q84. Books 1 and 2

Description

Aomame is a mysterious young woman in her thirties who murders abusers and who, when the novel begins, she is stuck in a traffic jam, inside a taxi, on his way to commit one of his murders. In another scene, in I have, a young writer who has never published and earns a living as a math teacher, he finds himself trapped when a prestigious publisher asks him to rewrite the work of a young promise. From here, Aomame and Tengo's lives will cross without ever touching, in a novel in the purest Murakami style. With just the right amount of tenderness and melancholy, and full of magical scenes and unforgettable characters, outclassed and lonely, 1Q84 is a splendid and ambitious novel that transports us to an alternative Tokyo in a year that George Orwell made iconic, he 1984. Perhaps the author's most anticipated novel - welcomed around the world with great anticipation -, recovers one of its great themes, that of the individual's confrontation with society and the prevailing system, and reproduce an original world, dark and bright at the same time, which many will recognize as the narrative universe of Haruki Murakami. To read the acceptance speech of the XXIII International Prize of Catalonia, go here.