Prior to that, this title was usually reserved for entertaining reference books, political memoirs or documents. The 1Q84 novel’s record is even more significant because it is the first literary work since 1990 to win the title of “bestselling book of the year” in Japan. Immediately after its release to readers at the end of May this year, the 1Q84 book was immediately scrambled to buy by Japanese people and quickly disappeared from the bookstores, so it had to be continuously reprinted many times. So far, in just half a year, the number of prints 1Q84 has reached a record number of 3.23 million copies. When explaining the novel’s intentions, Haruki Murakami said he wanted to warn people about the dangers of orthodoxism and the tendency to emerge from sects in the context of the global crisis of the modern world. in Tokyo in 1995 killed 12 people and hundreds of people suffered severe mental and physical consequences.

1Q84 tells about the process of a leftist organization transforming into a sect of madmen and murderers, referring to the Aum sect – the sect that caused the terrible poisoning in the subway system.

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