First published 2016
Tengo rewrites a teenage girl's mysterious manuscript while Aomame carries out a secret assassination in Tokyo. The year is 1984, but something feels wrong. Two moons hang in the sky of this parallel world called 1Q84. Tengo, a math teacher and aspiring novelist, becomes entangled with a cult through his editing work. Aomame, a fitness instructor and part-time killer, discovers she has crossed into an alternate timeline where history has shifted. Their lives intertwine across these dual realities as they search for each other. A secret pact binds their fates as they move between two universes and two different eras. Their connection spans both the familiar 1984 and the hypnotic alternate world of 1Q84, where shadows blur the boundaries between what is real and what is possible.
Genres: fiction, mystery, contemporary, magical-realism, thriller, alternate-history
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Tokyo
Period: 1984, 1Q84
557 pages · Paperback · المركز الثقافى العربى