1Q84
1Q84
First published 2009 · 925 pages · about 15 hours to read
Won: Ignotus Award for Best Foreign Novel (2012)
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The novel is a sub-melodramatic sentimental metafictional love story in a ficticious world with two moons in the sky, a thriller packed with cults, assassinations and grotesque sex (newyorkobserver). The title is a play on the Japanese pronunciation of the year 1984 of George Orwell. The novel was longlisted for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize and placed No. 2 in Amazon.com's top books of the year.
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Quotes
“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
Chapter 11
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“I’m just a machine. A capable, patient, unfeeling machine. A machine that draws in new time through one end, then spits out old time from the other end. It exists in order to exist.”
Chapter 16 “Air Chrysalis had long since disappeared from the bestseller lists. Number one on the list now was a diet book entitled Eat as Much as You Want of the Food You Love and Still Lose Weight. What a great title. The whole book could be blank inside and it would still sell.”
Chapter 3 “In Ushikawa’s experience, nobody hated paying taxes more than the rich.”
Chapter 4 “It’s very difficult to logically explain the illogical.” / “Exactly. As difficult as finding a real pearl in a Roppongi oyster bar.”
Chapter 26
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