Book: 1Q84
Author: Haruki Murakami
My second book from Haruki and I was so excited to start it … I was not disappointed as his stories are always surprising. But I did a mistake and didn’t actually know this book had three parts. So I bought by mistake on Amazon only the third one and started reading. I had the impression I was missing some context but thought that’s how it was supposed to be. I loved this condensed third book. It made me think, ask questions …
When I finished it I read some reviews and people were complaining how long this book was. And then I’ve asked myself … hmm … that wasn’t long. So I checked again on Amazon and my Kindle and discovered I’ve read the last book. Yeah, so I ordered the other two and started it from the beginning. Some things were now more clear, some of my questions were answered. The first book was good too as it was introducing the characters. However the second book repeated two much information from the third one.
Coming to the actual book. The story is intriguing, it’s like a search of something unknown, a mysticism that never comes to an end. A world with two moons, crossing worlds, connected people, love …
People need things like that to go on living – mental landscapes that have meaning for them, even if they can’t explain them in words. Part of why we live is to come up with explanations for these things.
Those creatures connected to dead and living souls. Are their our imagination, the hidden ones? They remembered me of the mice from the “Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy”. Are they the ones that have all answers in the universe? Why are we so desperate of finding where we come from? What are we? Made of soil and water?
Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow, there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow …
The actual search for him and her was touching and thrilling. All that danger, especially her strength and special skill. I love women who are strong inside and outside and at the same time vulnerable. The loneliness, the pursuit of a dream, living in the past, revenge …
Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.
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I’m all alone, but I’m not lonely.
I felt my heart beat several times. And stopped in between … Nevertheless this book is precious as it conveys so many feelings.
As always I don’t want to write more as I think I’ll spoil the rest. So many questions and just a few answers …
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