1Q84

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

Haruki Murakami (Kioto, 1949) es uno de los pocos autores japoneses que han dado el salto de escritor de prestigio a autor con grandes ventas en todo el mundo. Tusquets Editores ha publicado todas sus novelas x{0026} x02014;Escucha la canción del viento y Pinball 1973; La caza del carnero salvaje; El fin del mundo y un despiadado país de las maravillas; Tokio blues. Norwegian Wood; Baila, baila, baila; Al sur de la frontera, al oeste del Sol; Crónica del pájaro que da cuerda al mundo; Sputnik, mi amor; Kafka en la orilla; After Dark; 1Q84, Los años de peregrinación del chico sin color y La muerte del comendador (Libro 1 y 2)x{0026} x02014;, así como los libros de relatos El elefante desaparece, Después del terremoto, Sauce ciego, mujer dormida, Hombres sin mujeres y Primera persona del singular, la personalísima obra Underground, los ensayos titulados De qué hablo cuando hablo de correr, De qué hablo cuando hablo de escribir y Música, sólo música, y dos bellos relatos ilustrados, La chica del cumpleaños y Tony Takitani. Murakami ha recibido numerosos premios, entre ellos el Noma, el Tanizaki, el Yomiuri, el Franz Kafka, el Jerusalem Prize o el Hans Christian Andersen, y su nombre suena reiteradamente como candidato al Nobel de Literatura. En España, ha merecido el Premio Arcebispo Juan de San Clemente, la Orden de las Artes y las Letras, concedida por el Gobierno español, el Premi Internacional Catalunya 2011 y, recientemente, el Premio Princesa de Asturias de las Letras 2023.