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1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
A book about mainly two people in their thirties both unknowingly in love with each other for the past twenty years. Aomame a young who works for a wealthy older woman, the Dowager. She is a hired assassin by the Dowager. Aomame is usually ordered to kill men who are extreme abusers. Those who should no longer exist in this world or any other.
At the same time there is also a man of the same age named Tengo. Tengo is known as a math prodigy, but his real passion is writing. He has never been able to publish his own. One day after reviewing a piece of literature for a contest he contacts Komatsu, a close friend and editor. The story is rooted in a world of fantasy yet there's a slight horror behind it. It's written fairly poorly, so they make up a plan to rewrite it. Tengo the ghost writer while the original writer Fuka-Eri will be the name and the face.
The story will continue on with both characters finding themselves in a predicament all surrounding a religious group. The story that Tengo is writing let's out secrets of their religion. It tells the every day person about what is called "little people" these people originally come out of a blind goats mouth and they grow now more than a meter and no less than an inch. The spread of their existence pushes them to stop interacting with the religion as much.
While as the books is flourishing and Tengo has yet to surmise the problem him and Fuka-Eri have created a girl is found brutally assaulted. So the Dowager and Aomame create a plan where Aomame will kill the leader of the religion believing he's the one who hurt the girl. The death of the leader would thankfully pull attention away from Tengo but put a target on her back where she must be hidden.
It ends after being watched and hiding both Tengo and Aomame meet once again after the twenty years confessing their love and finding a way to escape the world and the problems they've gotten themsbes into.
All in all the book was decent it has a fantasy point to it with the little people, and a few other points, but it's not shown a lot and it's up to you to learn what it means. The story at some points were lackluster and repetitive. There was a lot of over sexualization in the book that most likely could have been avoided. I would suggest reading only if you can handle something breathy that goes through twist and turns at random points. The multiple perspectives probably really helped develop the story and fill in the gaps of the characters so I will say that is well written.
At the same time there is also a man of the same age named Tengo. Tengo is known as a math prodigy, but his real passion is writing. He has never been able to publish his own. One day after reviewing a piece of literature for a contest he contacts Komatsu, a close friend and editor. The story is rooted in a world of fantasy yet there's a slight horror behind it. It's written fairly poorly, so they make up a plan to rewrite it. Tengo the ghost writer while the original writer Fuka-Eri will be the name and the face.
The story will continue on with both characters finding themselves in a predicament all surrounding a religious group. The story that Tengo is writing let's out secrets of their religion. It tells the every day person about what is called "little people" these people originally come out of a blind goats mouth and they grow now more than a meter and no less than an inch. The spread of their existence pushes them to stop interacting with the religion as much.
While as the books is flourishing and Tengo has yet to surmise the problem him and Fuka-Eri have created a girl is found brutally assaulted. So the Dowager and Aomame create a plan where Aomame will kill the leader of the religion believing he's the one who hurt the girl. The death of the leader would thankfully pull attention away from Tengo but put a target on her back where she must be hidden.
It ends after being watched and hiding both Tengo and Aomame meet once again after the twenty years confessing their love and finding a way to escape the world and the problems they've gotten themsbes into.
All in all the book was decent it has a fantasy point to it with the little people, and a few other points, but it's not shown a lot and it's up to you to learn what it means. The story at some points were lackluster and repetitive. There was a lot of over sexualization in the book that most likely could have been avoided. I would suggest reading only if you can handle something breathy that goes through twist and turns at random points. The multiple perspectives probably really helped develop the story and fill in the gaps of the characters so I will say that is well written.