1Q84

It is a work of maddening brilliance and gripping originality, deceptively casual in style, but vibrating with wit, intellect and ambition

1Q84 reads like a cross between Stieg Larsson and Roberto Bolano... In its bones, this novel is a thriller

1Q84 has a range and sophistication that surpasses anything else in his oeuvre. It is his most achieved novel; an epic in which form and content are neatly aligned... So like Murakami himself, I'll borrow from Orwell: 1Q84 is quite simply doubleplusgood

Eerie, suspenseful and packed full of gorgeous ordinary details and provocative extraordinary events, Murakami takes weighty themes and delivers a compulsive tale that is funny, fresh and intensely surreal. Unmissable.

A book that... makes you marvel, reading it, at all the strange folds a single human brain can hold

There’s no question about the sheer enjoyability of this ­gigantic novel, both as an eerie thriller and as a moving love story... I read the book in three days and have been thinking about it ever since.

Profound... A multilayered narrative of loyalty and loss... A fully articulated vision of a not-quite-nightmare world

1Q84 is a tremendous accomplishment. It does every last blessed thing a masterpiece is supposed to—and a few things we never even knew to expect.

Explicit, yet subtle and dream-like, combining viciousness with whimsy... this is Murakami’s unflagging and masterful take on the desire and pursuit of the Whole.

Voracious visionary Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 mixes down-the-rabbit-hole fantasy with out-there science fiction for a superhefty but accessible adventure.

1Q84 is one of those books that disappear in your hands, pulling you into its mysteries with such speed and skill that you don’t even notice as the hours tick by and the mountain of pages quietly shrinks

1Q84 goes further than any Murakami novel so far, and perhaps further than any novel before it, toward exposing the delicacy of the membranes that separate love from chance encounters, the kind from the wicked, and reality from what people living in the pent-up modern world dream about when they go to sleep under an alien moon.

1Q84 is extraordinarily ambitious . . . Beguiling and ridiculously entertaining

Unquestionably Murakami’s most vividly imagined parallel world... When Murakami melds fantasy and realism, mystery and epic, it is no simple genre-bending exercise; rather, it is literary alchemy of the highest order.