1Q84 Audiobook by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (translator), Philip Gabriel (translator)

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/79/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: 1Q84 Author: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (translator), Philip Gabriel (translator) Narrator: Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett Format: Unabridged Length: 46 hrs and 50 mins Language: English Release date: 10-25-11 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6726 votes Genres: Fiction, Literary Publisher's Summary: Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine) The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q" is for "question mark". A world that bears a question. Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled. As Aomame's and Tengo's narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector. A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell's, 1Q84 is Haruki Murakami's most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers. BONUS AUDIO: Audible interviews the translators of 1Q84, Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel. Critic Reviews: "This imaginative, lengthy novel satisfies as a mystery, fantasy, and humorous coming-of-age taleall blended with the vagaries of love and loss in a dystopia mired in strange cults and mathematical/musical dreamscapes. One surmises that it's no accident that the book's enigmatic title relates to George Orwell's 1984." (AudioFile) Profound . . . A multilayered narrative of loyalty and loss . . . A fully articulated vision of a not-quite-nightmare world . . . A big sprawling novel [that] achieves what is perhaps the primary function of literature: to reimagine, to reframe, the world . . . At the center of [1Q84s] reality . . . is the question of love, of how we find it and how we hold it, and the small fragile connections that sustain us, even (or especially) despite the odds . . . This is a major development in Murakamis writing . . . A vision, and an act of the imagination. (David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times) 1Q84 is one of those books that disappear in your hands, pulling you into its mysteries with such speed and skill that you dont even notice as the hours tick by and the mountain of pages quietly shrinks . . . I finished 1Q84 one fall evening, and when I set it down, baffled and in awe, I couldnt help looking out the window to see if just the usual moon hung there or if a second orb had somehow joined it. It turned out that this magical novel did not actually alter reality. Even so, its enigmatic glow makes the world seem a little strange long after you turn the last page. Grade: A. (Rob Brunner, Entertainment Weekly)