1Q84: Book 3

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Vintage Books, 2012 - Fiction - 464 pages

Book Two of 1Q84 ended with Aomame standing on the Metropolitan Expressway with a gun between her lips.

She knows she is being hunted, and that she has put herself in terrible danger in order to save the man she loves.

But things are moving forward, and Aomame does not yet know that she and Tengo are more closely bound than ever.

Tengo is searching for Aomame, and he must find her before this world's rules loosen up too much.

He must find her before someone else does.


'Reads like a cross between Stieg Larsson and Roberto Bolano' Daily Telegraph

'Book Three contains some of the finest writing of the trilogy...1Q84 is quite simply doubleplusgood' Independent

'Fast, funny, suspenseful, sexy, dazzlingly weird...an imagination that lies somewhere due crazy of Tim Burton and L. Frank Baum' New York Times

'1Q84 is less a stairway to another world than a heave-ho into a whole new universe' Economist

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About the author (2012)

Haruki Murakami was born on January 12, 1949 in Kyoto, Japan and studied at Tokyo's Waseda University. He opened a coffeehouse/jazz bar in the capital called Peter Cat with his wife. He became a full-time author following the publication of his first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, in 1979. He writes both fiction and non-fiction works. His fiction works include Norwegian Wood, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, The Strange Library, and Men Without Women. Several of his stories have been adapted for the stage and as films. His nonfiction works include What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. He has received numerous literary awards including the Franz Kafka Prize for Kafka on the Shore, the Yomiuri Prize for The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and the Jerusalem Prize. He has translated into Japanese literature written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, Truman Capote, John Irving, and Paul Theroux.