Book 3: Book 3 (1Q84, #2)

by Haruki Murakami

Book Two of 1Q84 ends with Aomame standing on the Metropolitan Expressway with a gun between her lips. She has come tantalisingly close to meeting her beloved Tengo only to have him slip away at the last minute. The followers of the cult leader she assassinated are determined to track her down and she has been living in hiding, completely isolated from the world.

However, Tengo has also resolved to find Aomame. As the two of them uncover more and more about the strange world of 1Q84, and the mysterious Little People, their longing for one another grows. Can they find each other before they themselves are found?

• ISBN10: 1846554055
• ISBN13: 9781846554056
• Publish Date: 25 October 2011 (first published 1 May 2009)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 23 August 2013
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Imprint: Harvill Secker
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 368
• Language: English

Reviews

[nannah]

DNF @ 5%

Yeah, pretty low, right?
I almost never stop there.

But in this case, I just couldn't read on. Not when one of the main PoV characters is a pedophile. He's a literal 30yo man who finds no problem dating and even having sex with his high school students. I don't care if maybe (just maybe??) later it turns out he finds out this is wrong, but I don't want anything to do with work that features pedophilia. None whatsoever. Sorry, Haruki Murakami.