1q84: 3 Volume Boxed Set

　　距上一部長篇《海邊的卡夫卡》推出至今已經過了七年，村上春樹寫作三十年生涯的第11部長篇代表作《1Q84》，在日本媒體及書店都造成前所未有的熱烈迴響，並破天荒創下一個月就狂賣兩百萬冊的歷史性銷量。



　　1979年推出第一部小說《聽風的歌》以來，村上春樹以獨特的風格及有別於日本文壇任何人的個人色彩，寫出一本又一本不讓讀者失望之作，並在他寫作邁向 三十週年之際推出了重量級作品《1Q84》，今年三月在巴賽隆納領獎時，村上自己提到這部作品：「歐威爾寫《1984》是向前看，但在我這本小說裡剛好反 過來。我看過去，但仍然會看到未來。這是我最具企圖心的作品。」今年已屆六十歲的村上春樹，創作力果然澎湃。



　　小說《1Q84》是關於現 實與真實、愛情與信仰、過去與未來的磅薄大作，故事以雙線進行，並以村上較少用的第三人稱全知觀點來說故事。現實時間是1984年，少女青豆在健身俱樂部 工作，但她另有一個神祕的身分，而熱愛寫作的補習班數學老師天吾則為了一篇小說新人獎投稿著迷不已，兩個主角雙線平行地發展，從互不相關、到發展出奇妙的 戀情，從詭異的1Q84年回到幼年的60年代......



　　「不管喜不喜歡，我現在正置身於這『1Q84年』。我所熟知的1984年已經 消失無蹤不存在了。現在是1Q84年。空氣變了，風景變了。我對帶有問號的世界的成立方式，必須盡可能快速適應。就像剛被野放到新森林裡的動物那樣。保護 自己的身體，為了生存下去，必須早一刻理解那個場所的規則，配合那個才行。」



　　★本書中譯版由時報出版。

A deluxe boxed set edition of Haruki Murakami’s bestselling masterpiece, featuring the full novel split across three gorgeously designed paperback editions in a see-through case, with a removeable sticker on the shrink wrap packaging

＂Brilliant . . . an irresistibly engaging literary fantasy.＂--The Washington Post

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 a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.

作者簡介

村上春樹

　　一九四九年生於日本京都府。早稻田大學戲劇系畢業。

　　一九七九年以《聽風的歌》獲得「群像新人賞」，新穎的文風被譽為日本「八○年代文學旗手」，一九八七年暢銷七百萬冊的代表作《挪威的森林》出版，奠定村上在日本多年不墜的名聲，除了暢銷，也屢獲「野間文藝賞」、「谷崎潤一郎文學賞」等文壇肯定，三部曲《發條鳥年代記》更受到「讀賣文學賞」的高度肯定。除了暢銷，村上獨特的都市感及寫作風格也成了世界年輕人認同的標誌。

　　作品中譯本至今已有50幾本，包括長篇小說、短篇小說、散文及採訪報導等。

　　長篇小說有《聽風的歌》、《1973年的彈珠玩具》、《尋羊冒險記》、《世界末日與冷酷異境》、《挪威的森林》、《舞舞舞》、《國境之南、太陽之西》、《發條鳥年代記》三部曲、《人造衛星情人》、《海邊的卡夫卡》、《黑夜之後》、《1Q84 Book1》《1Q84 Book2》、《1Q84 Book3》等。

　　Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His books include Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, and 1Q84. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages and he has received many honours, including the Franz Kafka Prize. His most recent novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, sold one million copies in its first week of publication in Japan.