1Q84: The Complete Trilogy:. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Murakami should have never written Book 3. Buy 1Q84: The Complete Trilogy by Murakami, Haruki (ISBN: 9780099578079) from Amazon's Book Store. But, I can tell you exactly how it could’ve been so much better. There’s a lot of it that is really good and some that is really bad. Because for all its ambition and scope, 1Q84 is just pretty good.

Neither, in my opinion, captures how I feel 1Q84 is as a novel, especially as just one book in a huge body of work. It seems to me now, based on the few reviews that I have read, that the reception of 1Q84 has indeed fallen into these two camps: absolutely transcendent and absolutely horrific. Will falls squarely in the middle and breaks this down pretty well. 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. It’s a book that generated a shitton of hype, and one that is beloved by some (see Michael Orthofer’s review) while leaving others unimpressed (see Scott Esposito’s review). In terms of 1Q84, I think most anyone reading this blog is familiar with Murakami in general, and this novel in particular. Meet New Books is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. He’s also an aspiring translator who is working on a really interesting project. He’s reviewed a fair number of Japanese works for us, but is interested in contemporary lit in general. It’s a huge book, and in order to get all three books out at once, Knopf used two Japanese translators: Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel.įor anyone who hasn’t encountered his reviews in the past, Will is one of our most personal and interesting reviewers. The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by contributing reviewer Will Eells on 1Q84, Haruki Murakami’s “total novel” that is pretty much the only work of international literature making its way onto the year-end lists at the “big” review outlets.

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