1Q84: Books 1, 2 and 3

　　村上春樹繼2004年《黑夜之後》後，全新長篇小說《1Q84》終於上架，真有千呼萬喚始出來之洶洶氣勢；而事實上，2009絕對是村上春樹先生大活躍的一年，名作《聽風的歌》出版30周年紀念、《挪威的森林》宣布開拍電影版(松山研一飾主角渡邊、菊地凜子飾直子、水原希子飾阿綠，陳英雄執導)、年初時更親身前往戰火漫天的加薩地帶接受「耶路撒冷文學獎」並發表演講，轟動世界文壇。至09年5月下旬，待望多時之新作《1Q84》終於堂堂上架，出版不足2周上下卷合共售出超逾100萬冊，東京各大書店紛出現搶購人龍。不同於上個世紀八零年代的村上現象正在日本以至世界各地爆發！今年已屆60歲的村上春樹先生，創作力依然澎湃

　　* 本書中譯本<<1Q84>>、<<1Q84>>由時報出版。

　　The year is 1Q84.

　　This is the real world, there is no doubt about that.

　　But in this world, there are two moons in the sky.

　　In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely intertwined. They are each, in their own way, doing something very dangerous. And in this world, there seems no way to save them both.

　　Something extraordinary is starting.

 

作者簡介

村上春樹
    
　　一九四九年生於日本兵庫縣，日本早稻田大學戲劇系畢業。一九七九年以《聽風的歌》獲得「群 像新人賞」，新穎的文風被譽為日本「八○年代文學旗手」，一九八七年暢銷七百萬冊的代表作《挪威的森林》出版，奠定村上在日本多年不墜的名聲，除了暢銷， 也屢獲「野間文藝賞」、「谷崎潤一郎文學賞」等文壇肯定，三部曲《發條鳥年代記》更受到「讀賣文學賞」的高度肯定。除了暢銷，村上獨特的都市感及寫作風格 也成了世界年輕人認同的標誌。作品中譯本至《1Q84》今已有50本。

　　Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949. Following the publication of his first novel in Japanese in 1979, he sold the jazz bar he ran with his wife and became a full-time writer. It was with the publication of Norwegian Wood - which has to date sold more than 4 million copies in Japan alone - that the author was truly catapulted into the limelight. Known for his surrealistic world of mysterious (and often disappearing) women, cats, earlobes, wells, Western culture, music and quirky first-person narratives, he is now Japan's best-known novelist abroad.

　　Tengo is searching for Aomame, and he must find her before this world's rules loosen up too much.

　　He must find her before someone else does.