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1Q84
Sign in to savethumb|right|US edition of 1Q84, first published in 2011 by Knopf is a novel written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, first published in three volumes in Japan in 2009–2010. It covers a fictionalized year of 1984 in parallel with a "real" one. The novel is a story of how a woman named Aomame begins to notice strange changes occurring in the world. She is quickly caught up in a plot involving Sakigake, a religious cult, and her childhood love, Tengo, and embarks on a journey to discover what is "real".
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1Q84 is a work by author 村上春樹. It was first published in 2009, with specific publication dates recorded as 2009-05-29 and 2010-04-16. The work has an inception date of 2000.
The title has 42 editions. It is referenced by 85 other encyclopedia articles. An Internet Archive collection titled "Rahul_1Q84 Favorites" exists, categorized as a collection mediatype.
Synthesized by Vinony from 9 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Internet Archive, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Book.name
- 1Q84
- Book.translator
- Jay RubinPhilip Gabriel
- Book.image
- 1Q84bookcover.png
- Book.caption
- Cover of Book 1
- Book.author
- Haruki Murakami
- Book.country
- Japan
- Book.language
- Japanese
- Book.genre
- Alternate history, parallel worlds
- Book.publisher
- Shinchosha
- Book.release_date
- May 29, 2009 April 16, 2010
- Book.english_pub_date
- October 25, 2011
- Book.media_type
- Print (hardcover)
- Book.pages
- 928
- Book.isbn
- 978-0-307-59331-3
- Book.oclc
- 701017688
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Author
- Haruki Murakami
- Genre
- alternate history
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Publisher
- Shinchosha
- Follows
- After Dark
- Main subject
- cult
- Depicts
- Chekhov's gun
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- set in period
- 1984
- publication date
- 2010-04-16
- language of work or name
- Japanese
- inception
- 2000-00-00
- title
- 1Q84
- different from
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- form of creative work
- novel
- translator
- Jay Rubin
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Plot summary
- Main characters
- Publication history
- Background information
- Cultural influences
- Religious themes
- Critical response
- Awards and honors
- References
- External links
thumb|right|US edition of 1Q84, first published in 2011 by Knopf is a novel written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, first published in three volumes in Japan in 2009–2010. It covers a fictionalized year of 1984 in parallel with a "real" one. The novel is a story of how a woman named Aomame begins to notice strange changes occurring in the world. She is quickly caught up in a plot involving Sakigake, a religious cult, and her childhood love, Tengo, and embarks on a journey to discover what is "real".
The novel's first printing sold out on the day it was released and sales reached a million within a month. The English-language edition of all three volumes, with the first two volumes translated by Jay Rubin and the third by Philip Gabriel, was released in North America and the United Kingdom on October 25, 2011. An excerpt from the novel appeared in the September 5, 2011 issue of The New Yorker magazine as "Town of Cats". The first chapter of 1Q84 had also been read as an excerpt in the Selected Shorts series at Symphony Space in New York.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “1Q84” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.