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The year is 1984. Aomame sits in a taxi on the expressway in Tokyo. Her work is not the kind which can be discussed in public but she is in a hurry to carry out an assignment and, with the traffic at a stand-still, the driver proposes a solution. She agrees, but as a result of her actions starts to feel increasingly detached from the real world. She has been on a top-secret mission, and her next job will lead her to encounter the apparently superhuman founder of a religious cult. Meanwhile, Tengo is leading a nondescript life but wishes to become a writer. He inadvertently becomes involved in a strange affair surrounding a literary prize to which a mysterious seventeen-year-old girl has submitted her remarkable first novel. It seems to be based on her own experiences and moves readers in unusual ways. Can her story really be true? Aomame and Tengo's stories influence one another, at times by accident and at times intentionally, as the two come closer and closer to intertwining. As 1Q84 accelerates towards its conclusion, both are pursued by persons and forces they do not know and cannot understand. As they begin to decipher more about the strange world into which they have slipped, so they sense their destinies converging. What they cannot know is whether they will find one another before they are themselves found. 1Q84 is a magnificent and fully-imagined work of fiction - a thriller, a love-story and a mind-bending ode to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. It is a world from which the reader emerges stunned and altered.
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. He is the author of many novels as well as short stories and non-fiction. His works include Norwegian Wood, A Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, After Dark and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. His work has been translated into more than forty languages, and the most recent of his many international honours is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J.M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V.S. Naipaul.
Format: Book (Hardback)
ISBN13: 9781846555497
Published: October 2011
Number of pages: 944
Width: 240 mm
Height: 162 mm
Audience: General/trade
Publisher: Vintage
Country: United Kingdom
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Are those sleigh bells I hear ringing? Or is it just the angry lady next door trying to get her cat to come back inside? Either way, Christmas is coming to town (again) and we've got you covered here at Berkelouw Paddington.
We've got plenty here to keep the kids happy with our pretty awesome collection of kids Christmas picture books, including How the Grinch Stole Christmas and The Polar Express. And if you're looking for a cheeky gift for the child at heart or something for Kris Kringle, we've got The Little Book of Christmas, Happy Christmas Spot, and a collection of Mr. Men Christmas books, such as Twelve Days of Christmas, Mr. Christmas, and Little Miss Christmas.
If you're looking for something extra to add to your Christmas gifts, we've also got a whole lot bits and pieces you can throw in - bon bon kits, aprons, stockings, mugs, cards, candles, soaps, and lights, just to name a few.
And seeing as I have been a little neglectful of the blog, I just want to let you know about the recently arrived stock from Out of Print: we've got t-shirts ($39.95), notepads ($17.95), tote bags ($24.95), iPhone 4 cases ($39.95), coaster sets ($29.95), and cards ($3.95). The designs are covers of famous classics including Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Melville's Moby Dick, Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, and Heller's Catch-22.
Lastly, if you're looking to buy something for the hipster that has everything, you can pick and mix from my personal hipster-pack: Haruki Murakami's 1Q84, Street Style Memory Game, Stuff White People Like (to talk about) Conversation Starters, Olivier Dupon's The New Artisans, and Matt Granfield's HipsterMattic (one man's quest to become the ultimate hipster).
Good luck with the shopping, and Merry Christmas!!
SUMMER READING GUIDE
Summer has finally arrived, and what better way to while away the hours, at the beach or under a shady tree, than with a good book.
What was that? Don’t know what to read?
With everything from Murakami to the Stephen King, from philosophy to sci-fi and classic literature, as well as all the best biographies, cookbooks for the foodies and travel guide essentials, there is definitely something for everyone…
This voluminous novel, set in 1984, is simultaneously a mystery, a love story and a dystopian fantasy that raises questions of psychology and ethics - a must for Murakami fans.
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Are humans essentially good or bad? Has the past century seen moral progress of moral collapse? Pinker addresses these questions and more.
A meditation on memory, loss, free will and necessity, King’s novel sends a teacher back to 1958 by way of a time portal in a Maine diner. His assignment is to stop Lee Harvey Oswald – but first he must make sure of Oswald’s guilt.
AND SO IT GOES. KURT VONNEGUT: A LIFE Charles J Shields
From Dresden to his mother’s suicide, the early death of a beloved sister, serial unhappy marriages and literary anxiety, Vonnegut earned his status as Man of Sorrows, as this diligent and often heartbreaking biography shows.
With lively historical stories, dramatic biographies and countless tips on everything from charming bistros to grand hotels, Caro guides readers through all the splendours of French history – all via twenty-five train trips from central Paris.
GAME OF THRONES George R R Martin
Fantasy literature has never shied away from grandeur, but the sheer mind-boggling scope of Martin’s epic makes this is a remarkable page-turning read, with a whole series to follow it.
Hitchens’ recent passing inevitably throws a shadow over this spirited, provocative, prodigiously witty collection, which spans four decades of writing.
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