1Q84 is a trilogy (published in English as a single volume) by award-winning author, Murakami Haruki (村上 春樹). I had read a short story of his, Kino, in The New Yorker early last year, and had been taken enough with the work to look into other works by the same writer.
1Q84 caught my eye then, having been listed as second in Amazon’s best fiction books of the year for 2011. It wasn’t, however, until this month that I finally had the opportunity to sit down with this work, and I am still berating myself for having taken so long about it.