{"product_id":"1q84","title":"1Q84 (Vintage International) by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip ­Gabriel","description":"\u003cp\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A tremendous accomplishment. It does every last blessed thing a masterpiece is supposed to—and a few things we never even knew to expect.”—San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Brilliant . . . an irresistibly engaging literary fantasy.”—The Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s—1Q84 is a striking feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Landmark Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42414774518000,"sku":"9780307476463","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0586\/1385\/8477\/files\/Image2_2a05dfab-3498-4521-95b7-dfe84791fc54.jpg?v=1770657207","url":"https:\/\/landmark-booksellers.myshopify.com\/products\/1q84","provider":"Landmark Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}