- New York Times bestseller, Fiction, NEW LIST 20111231, Man-woman relationships
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.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Grave, contemporary, open-ended and meticulous.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- rawmeticulous
- warmbleak
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- 村上春樹
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 925
- Publisher
- Tusquets, Ėksmo, Shinchōsha
- Editions
- 42
- Language
- Japanese, Dutch, Chinese, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9784103534235
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 101 have read it and 349 want to.
“The taxi's radio was tuned to a classical FM broadcast.”
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered him critical acclaim, and he is the sixth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize for his novel Kafka on the Shore. He is considered an important figure in postmodern literature, and The Guardian praised him as one of the "world's greatest living novelists." ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Brief Lives 199478% alikeBoth grave.
Nova 196877% alikeBoth grave, contemporary.
Sub Rosa 201076% alikeBoth grave, contemporary.
A Game of You 199376% alikeBoth contemporary.
Close across the board.
Both grave, contemporary.
V for Vendetta 198875% alikeBoth grave, contemporary.
The Light Brigade 201975% alikeBoth grave, contemporary.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica 201178% alikeTelevision · Both contemporary, grave.
Game · Both grave, contemporary.