The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is an epic tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art--as well as a loving homage to...

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A clerk in a Tokyo of the near future works in an organization that controls the flow of information to society--employing electronic brainwashing and other insidious techniques--a job that contributes to his increasing sense of...

In post-war Japan, a middle-aged family man and owner of two jazz clubs is dogged by a nagging sense of inauthenticity about his success and a boyhood memory of a wise, lonely girl. When the beautiful Shimamoto shows up one rainy...

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel...

The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is an epic tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art--as well as a loving homage to...

A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim.

An ode to George Orwell's 1984 told in alternating male and female voices relates the stories of Aomame, an assassin for a secret organization who discovers that she has been transported to an alternate reality, and Tengo, a...