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characters of the novel, Aomame is a thirty-year-old woman working as part of an enigmatic organization for which she commits carefully selected murders. Her full name is Masami Aomame but she goes by her last name, which means "green peas". As a child, she was a member of a religious cult named "the
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A 40-year-old man who is the dowager's loyal bodyguard. He was in the toughest unit of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, where he was fed "rats and snakes and locusts". Openly gay, he lives in another part of Azabu with his younger beautician boyfriend. He has a fondness for German
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Aomame and Tengo, who had known each other when they were ten years old, attempt to find one another, each believing that they are destined to fall in love. When Tengo has sex with Fukada and Aomame assassinates the cult leader, it opens a portal through which Tengo impregnates Aomame. The two later
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The first two books have a dual narrative (like several of
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in 2009–2010. It covers a fictionalized year of 1984 in parallel with a "real" one. The novel is a story of how a woman named Aomame begins to notice strange changes occurring in the world. She is quickly caught up in a plot involving
Sakigake, a religious cult, and her childhood love, Tengo, and
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A 45-year-old editor of a publishing company. He lives his daily life on his own schedule, seemingly oblivious to the rhythms of people around him, and often calls Tengo in the middle of the night. Although
Komatsu enjoys a good professional reputation for his competence, he is not seen to be an
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gave it a "C" (68%) based on critic reviews with a consensus saying, "There is some very creative writing in "1Q84", but its mammoth length, repetitiveness, and somewhat convoluted narrative may be too much for some readers and may overshadow the excellent prose and well-plotted love story". In
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assigns further meaning to his previous novels and draws a connection between the supernatural and the disturbing. Readers are often cited as experiencing a religious unease that is similar to postmodern sensibilities. This unease is accomplished through
Murakami's creation of characters whose
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A grotesquely ugly man hired by
Sakigake to investigate Tengo and, later, Aomame. He becomes a point-of-view character in part three of the novel. He is tireless in his investigation, but he is not a member of Sakigake himself. He had a wife and two daughters earlier in his life, but he is now
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as a "complex and surreal narrative" which "shifts back and forth between tales of two characters, a man and a woman, who are searching for each other". It tackles themes of murder, history, cult religion, violence, family ties and love. In another review for
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neighborhood and has set up a safe house nearby for women who are victims of domestic violence. She meets Aomame through the sports club she attends, and she later on convinces her to take on the job of taking out targets, men who are guilty of heavy domestic
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It is revealed that Aomame is a hitwoman and that she specializes in killing abusive men. In her part of the story, she befriends a policewoman called Ayumi, who is later murdered, then works with an old lady called "the dowager" to
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published the novel in the United States in a single volume hardcover edition on
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find each other and escape into what they hope is the real version of 1984, but which appears to be another world due to subtle differences they notice. As with many other
Murakami novels, the ending is ambiguous.
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A man in his mid-60s who is Fuka-Eri's guardian. He has an apartment in
Shinanomachi. He used to work in academia alongside Fuka-Eri's father before Mr. Fukada went with 30 of his students to start Sakigake.
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is destined to become a lightning rod not only in the body of Murakami's work but in the burgeoning genre of New Weird fiction that breaks the rules even as it continues to attract readers". Globally,
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The novel's first printing sold out on the day it was released and sales reached a million within a month. The English-language edition of all three volumes, with the first two volumes translated by
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in two volumes. The first volume, containing Books 1 and 2, was published on October 18, 2011, followed by the second volume, containing Book 3, published on October 25, 2011.
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panned the book for being "too absorbed in its own games to offer something so humble as resolution, and too turgid and lumbering to offer any more rarified satisfactions". Writing for
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during a fictionalized version of the year 1984, with the first volume set between April and June, the second between July and September, and the third between October and December.
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religious prescriptions are presented as oppressive, as exemplified in the character of Leader, who is the founder of the Sakigake cult.
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novel is actually a true account of her life in a cult and that she did not write the story but rather dictated it. The novel is called
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received mixed reviews, scoring a 54% rating and a "Not Recommended by Critics" label from the review aggregator
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plot is built around a mystical cult and two long-lost lovers who are drawn into a distorted version of reality.
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nominated one excerpt from the book for its annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award.
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amicable person. Little is known about his private life beyond rumors.
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based on forty-four reviews (the lowest among Murakami's novels). On
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and Maggie Hinders. In the United Kingdom the novel was published by
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as "kyū", but as "kew" on the book's Japanese cover), are
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Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
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was noted for heavy advance orders despite this secrecy.
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The book begins with Aomame getting out of a taxi on the
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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2174:"1Q84 by Haruki Murakami: Bad sex award extract"
2011:"Secrets surround 1st Murakami novel in 5 years"
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1477:is proof that literature matters"
1183:"Haruki Murakami: "Town of Cats""
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2118:Haq, Husana (November 9, 2011).
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965:Goodreads Choice Awards
878:The Wall Street Journal
2474:Novelist as a Vocation
1864:"Aomame in Wonderland"
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692:from the travel diary
659:It's Only a Paper Moon
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2528:The Elephant Vanishes
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1977:(December 16, 2011).
1920:"1Q84: I'm Not A Fan"
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1641:on December 15, 2011
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1021:on February 21, 2010
836:s Bryan Walsh found
597:Nineteen Eighty-Four
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2661:Three-volume novels
2646:Novels set in Tokyo
2611:Fiction set in 1984
2501:The Strange Library
1953:Wall Street Journal
1948:"Book Review: 1Q84"
1701:on November 6, 2012
1671:on October 28, 2012
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1136:on October 28, 2011
1082:on October 29, 2010
1014:Mainichi Daily News
918:Haruki Murakami's "
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635:Cultural influences
554:Publication history
356:Jehovah's Witnesses
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2520:Kaze no uta o kike
2340:Kafka on the Shore
2332:Sputnik Sweetheart
2284:A Wild Sheep Chase
2268:Hear the Wind Sing
1991:on October 1, 2020
1897:The New York Times
1448:The New York Times
1423:on October 9, 2011
1393:on October 7, 2011
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2523:(1980 film)
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2103:November 5,
1975:Allen Barra
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452:Kūki Sanagi
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614:homophones
560:Shinchosha
480:The Leader
253:series at
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58:Translator
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204:いちきゅうはちよん
176:701017688
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651:, whose
473:dyslexia
436:Fuka-Eri
390:Ushikawa
217:Japanese
116:(Book 3)
75:Japanese
72:Language
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2025:May 30,
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