Book Review on IQ84
I won’t lie, it was the title and
the book cover which got my attention. Two
letters and two numbers. What could it possibly mean? I have always enjoyed reading foreign books, but
none had caught my attention so forcibly quick.
I had to buy it. A book with mysterious numbers and different faces as
the cover, a man in the back and a woman in the front. I had a small misconception at
the beginning, I confused the one with an I . In reality the title is 1984, the Q means
question. This is a very complex book, divided into 3 sections, and its separated like a calendar, you can feel the seasons pass, with every word. This book starts briefly by
describing Aomame and her line of work, then it switches into Tengo’s life.
Each chapter has varying different
accounts of their life or certain events. Half of the book you are
wondering what is Aomame’s and Tengo’s relationship . But with clues lying around in
each chapter, you will be able to
access the whole situation.
Aomame is a woman, that is an expert
gym trainer, she works at a private gym company , and sometimes
goes to some clients houses. She had a
difficult childhood being raised in a Christian sect, similar to the Jehovah
witnesses. Every Saturday she would
knock on doors, to have them shut down. During school days she was forced to
say a prayer out loud before every meal, and was ostracized, for it. One
day a boy stands up for her , she would never forget him throughout her whole life . The day before she decides
to escape ,she hold a boys hand, and ever since then she kept loving him. She never had any close friends, and lives a
reserved life. Her only friend dies, of
an overdose of painkillers, because her
husband abused her. She leaves Aomame a letter behind giving her reasons. One day a dowager offers
her an extra job apart of being her
trainer. A job that she believes only Aomame can do due to her expertize. The
killing of abusive men. They develop a method that is clean and leaves no trace
or evidence
.
Tengo Kawana has great ambitions. He is an unpublished
novelist who works as a math tutor at a prep school. His mother died when he
was very young; his earliest memory is of his mother in bed with a man who was
not Tengo's father. His father worked for NHK going door to door collecting the
network's reception fee, and he used to make Tengo go with him every Sunday. He
would see often a girl walking with her mother
near the same are his father
worked. One day he decides to protect the girl and the girl thanks him by holding
his hand. She disappears after some
days, and he never hears from her again. But he can’t shake her off his memory,
she was his first love.
Tengo and Aomames fate is intertwined.
They were meant for each other, but in the real world they would never meet.
Aomame going late for
one of her special jobs takes a cab and
while in traffic decides, to take a shortcut through some stairs. Once she passes the
stairs ,without noticing she is transported into a parallel world. Comes the
night and she realizes that there are two moons in the sky. Tengo on the other
hand , ends up having to edit a book by
a dyslexic girl with the pen name Fuka
Eri. Fuka Eri can see little people, and
somehow most of what she says in her book
“Air chrysalis” comes true. Tengo
and Aomame end up, teaming up and fighting against the blue people on their
side, each relying on some outside help in order to defeat them. At the time
their troubles began they didn’t know
that each other was trying the best to
defeat the little people. Eventually they find each other and escape from the
parallel world together, starting a new
life. But I recommend it if you’re, interested in the supernatural, some
exotic scenes, and learning more about
IQ84’s secrets.
