All we are told is Aomame is on a mission and has to get somewhere, no matter what, by a certain time. She is stuck in a taxi on a jammed expressway in Tokyo in 1984. This tale begins with a woman named Aomame ~~ which means green pea in Japanese. Murakami has said he wants to blend Dostoevsky with Raymond Chandler in his work, and he has done so brilliantly in 1Q84 with a triple dose of religious mysticism, assassins, murders and detectives, and Little People.
What Murakami has given us in 1Q84, is a tightly plotted, metaphysical monster of a fairy tale. And now that I have finished it, I have no idea what to say or how to write this review.ġQ84 takes place in a surreal world, filled with peculiar characters, talking cats, large penises, a plethora of pubic hair and lots of jazz ~~ add to this a religious cult, secret passageways, and various chrysalises, and you know you are in Murakamiland. I became so invested in 1Q84, I finished all 925 pages in seven days. And as with all Murakami books, the reader is literally taking a plunge since you have no idea what world, or in some cases, worlds you'll end up inhabiting. When a friend is that passionate about a book, one has no choice but to take the plunge. Being a huge Murakami fan, he enthusiastically urged me to tackle 1Q84 telling me it was an amazing read. I mentioned I was thinking of 1Q84 to my friend, Srđan. But I thought the styles might be too similar for back-to-back reads.
Selected by Srđan for March 2021 Big Book ReadĪfter finishing War and Peace I had planned on reading Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain for my next big read of 2021. Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.
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