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

less lonely life

in the written form of a series of lectures given at Oxford in the 1930s

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

he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved

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