Murakami 1Q84 Book Two Chapter 1: 青豆:あれは世界でいちばん退屈な町だった

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This story contains themes of an adult and/or sensitive nature, including cults, sex, murder, and sexual abuse of children, both mentioned, and graphic (though not until Book 2, in the latter case).

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第1章:青豆:あれは世界でいちばん退屈な町だった

Start Date: 09.05.2021
Previous: Book 1 Chapter 24
Next: Chapter 2

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I feel like this book just keeps building and getting better and better. I’m starting to see how the dual-perspectives in this book fit together masterfully with points from Tengo’s chapters showing up in Aomame’s, like Tamaru being Sakhalin, and using the second moon to tell us we’re in a different reality. Excellent work by Murakami. Things are building so much, it’s crazy that we’re not even halfway through yet.