1Q84 – Haruki Murakami

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 existence, which she calls 1Q84 — “Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.”

Meanwhile, Tengo is an aspiring writer who takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so deeply involved that his own reality begins to warp. As their stories intertwine, Murakami weaves a magnificent, surreal narrative about love, isolation, and a search for truth that spans across multiple dimensions.