1Q84

In 1984, Aomame kills a wealthy man from the oil industry to settle an old debt. The next day, the news reports say nothing about the deed. Confused, she wonders whether her surroundings have become a different world, and she calls this reality 1Q84.

Tengo, an occasional writer without much success, receives a daring assignment: he is to polish the idiosyncratic manuscript of a seventeen-year-old named Fukaeri so that she has a chance at a prize. He finds the ideas of the text fascinating, but the language is clumsy. On a visit to his father’s hospital bed, he discovers an inflatable doll that resembles a young girl who looks like Aomame.

A cult wants the murder of its leader cleared up, and a cold-blooded agent takes up Aomame’s trail. How far will he go, and what secrets lie behind this new world?