1Q84 - Haruki Murakami

Category: Adults, Bestsellers, Contemporary, General Fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Dystopian Fantasy Fiction Funny Literary Fiction Magical Realism Mind-Bending Mystery Scary Science Fiction Young Adult

Written by Haruki Murakami
Read by Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
Format: M4B
Bitrate: Variable
Unabridged

1Q84
By: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin - translator, Philip Gabriel - translator
Narrated by: Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
Length: 46 hrs, 45 mins

Publisher’s summary
Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine)

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - “Q” is for “question mark”. A world that bears a question.

Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled.

As Aomame’s and Tengo’s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.

A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s, 1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.

BONUS AUDIO: Audible interviews the translators of 1Q84, Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel.

2011 Haruki Murakami (P)2011 Audible, Inc.
Unabridged Audiobook
Categories: Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, Dystopian, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Mind-Bending, Scary, Funny
*This book contains 3 books. Each is announced by Audible. Book and chapter marks for each are included in track. 64kbps VBR