1Q84

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

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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 He is an unpublished novelist who works as a math tutor at a prep school.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.