1Q84
Cover of Book 1
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| Author | Haruki Murakami |
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| Translator |
Jay Rubin Philip Gabriel |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Genre | Alternate history, parallel worlds |
| Publisher | Shinchosha |
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Publication date
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May 29, 2009 (Books 1 and 2) April 16, 2010 (Book 3) |
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Published in English
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October 25, 2011 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 928 |
| ISBN | |
| OCLC | 701017688 |
1Q84 (いちきゅうはちよん Ichi-Kyū-Hachi-Yon?, One Q Eighty-Four or Q-teen Eighty-Four or ichi-kew-hachi-yon) is a dystopian novel written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, first published in three volumes in Japan in 2009–10. The novel quickly became a sensation, with its first printing selling out the day it was released, and reaching sales of one 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, "Town of Cats", appeared in the September 5, 2011 issue of The New Yorker magazine. The first chapter of 1Q84 has also been read as an excerpt at Selected Shorts.
The novel was originally published in Japan in three hardcover volumes by Shinchosha. Book 1 and Book 2 were both published on May 29, 2009; Book 3 was published on April 16, 2010.
In English translation, Knopf published the novel in the United States in a single volume on October 25, 2011, and released a three volume box-set on May 15, 2015. The cover for the box-set, featuring a transparent dust jacket, was created by Chip Kidd and Maggie Hinders. In the United Kingdom the novel was published by Harvill Secker in two volumes. The first volume, containing Books 1 and 2, was published on October 18, 2011, followed by the second volume, containing Book 3, published on October 25, 2011.
Murakami spent four years writing the novel after coming up with the opening sequence and title. The title is a play on the Japanese pronunciation of the year 1984 and a reference to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. The letter Q and the Japanese number 9 (typically romanized as "kyū", but as "kew" on the book's Japanese cover) are homophones, which are often used in Japanese wordplay.
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