1Q84 - a novel Orwell Prize Nominee (2016) This deftly written novel borrows

This deftly written novel borrows its Dantesque title from an autobiographical graphic novel penned by its protagonist

having risked everything to warn Cinder of Queen Levana's evil plan

A young reporter

he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved

in the spirit of Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence

1Q84 - a novel Orwell Prize Nominee (2016) This deftly written novel borrowsThe year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi drivers 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, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author