1Q84 is one of thickest books: a 3 volume book, around 1,000 pages. Yes well if you’re afraid of a little challenge and lot of addiction, don’t start reading it.
Murakami was the reason I fell in love with Japanese writers and just another reason to love Japan. 1Q84 as weird and unpredictable at the beginning is a love story. Murakami have the ability to display love and romance in a peculiar way.
The main characters where the story goes around:
- Aomame: a young woman. A clear headed person knowing what, why, and how things should go in her life. A robotic like personality at the beginning, perfectionist. Later on in the story, you realize that she is a prisoner in this world and wants to be free of all the monotony, the inner pain, and the lost love.
- Tengo: a young man who went to school with Aomame when he was young. A math teacher and aspiring author. He always by his routine, enjoyed his loneliness, and went on with life with no hope or aspiration. One day he accepted to rewrite a story written by a young girl with a hidden life. With a small change, he went from living a fastidious life into being part of a bigger dangerous word.
“Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.”
Our actions manipulate our lives. Things can change with a split of a second, with one action, one word, one minute… Aomame life turned ups and down. She went into a parallel universe cause of one minute. Tengo lived the same case. The difference is that he didn’t know that he just crossed into another universe. He was too consumed with his wary life. Once our reality changes, we either starts wondering about all the aspects of change like Aomame or accept it and live in a world with two moons as in 1Q84 or even not to notice it like Tengo.
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
As for love, we keep hearing the idea that it wasn’t meant to be. In fact, we can’t let the circumstances control our desires. Once you realize and accept what you heart desire, no one can stop it. Aomame risked her life for a love that she doesn’t even know if it’s true: an emotion, a thought, a desire, a yearning, nostalgia. When little people and the world were stopping Aomame and Tengo from being together, they didn’t stop wanting that.
“It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”
It is a long novel. I was staying up all night reading it saying one more chapter but couldn’t stop. Basically, there are lots of repetitions that aren’t annoying. The last volume was a bit difficult for me to read since it was just pure repetition of the events so I had so go through them fast until I reached the end.
The story has different aspects and goes into a maze with cults, little people figures, two moons, parallel universe… Lots of bizarre events that they indirectly represent subconscious, time, faith, uncovered realities that we are facing on daily basis.
It took me more than a month to get over this story. It got under my skin, in my veins, and throughout my emotions, my time, and my life. It’s like tough love; it’s part of me now.
Murakami was the reason I fell in love with Japanese writers and just another reason to love Japan. 1Q84 as weird and unpredictable at the beginning is a love story. Murakami have the ability to display love and romance in a peculiar way.
The main characters where the story goes around:
- Aomame: a young woman. A clear headed person knowing what, why, and how things should go in her life. A robotic like personality at the beginning, perfectionist. Later on in the story, you realize that she is a prisoner in this world and wants to be free of all the monotony, the inner pain, and the lost love.
- Tengo: a young man who went to school with Aomame when he was young. A math teacher and aspiring author. He always by his routine, enjoyed his loneliness, and went on with life with no hope or aspiration. One day he accepted to rewrite a story written by a young girl with a hidden life. With a small change, he went from living a fastidious life into being part of a bigger dangerous word.
“Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.”
Our actions manipulate our lives. Things can change with a split of a second, with one action, one word, one minute… Aomame life turned ups and down. She went into a parallel universe cause of one minute. Tengo lived the same case. The difference is that he didn’t know that he just crossed into another universe. He was too consumed with his wary life. Once our reality changes, we either starts wondering about all the aspects of change like Aomame or accept it and live in a world with two moons as in 1Q84 or even not to notice it like Tengo.
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
As for love, we keep hearing the idea that it wasn’t meant to be. In fact, we can’t let the circumstances control our desires. Once you realize and accept what you heart desire, no one can stop it. Aomame risked her life for a love that she doesn’t even know if it’s true: an emotion, a thought, a desire, a yearning, nostalgia. When little people and the world were stopping Aomame and Tengo from being together, they didn’t stop wanting that.
“It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”
It is a long novel. I was staying up all night reading it saying one more chapter but couldn’t stop. Basically, there are lots of repetitions that aren’t annoying. The last volume was a bit difficult for me to read since it was just pure repetition of the events so I had so go through them fast until I reached the end.
The story has different aspects and goes into a maze with cults, little people figures, two moons, parallel universe… Lots of bizarre events that they indirectly represent subconscious, time, faith, uncovered realities that we are facing on daily basis.
It took me more than a month to get over this story. It got under my skin, in my veins, and throughout my emotions, my time, and my life. It’s like tough love; it’s part of me now.