New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. dj. Hardcover first edition - A massive novel, Murakami's magnus opus, originally published in 3 volumes in Japan and here "adapted into a single volume with the participation of the author." "The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi drivers 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 Aomames and Tengos narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer. . . A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell's, this is most ambitious undertaking yet - a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers." Books One and Two have been translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin and Book Three by Philip Gabriel. An unusual and attractively designed book. 925 pp. Dust jacket design by Chip Kidd. ISBN: 978-0307593313.