![]() ![]() )ĭespite the generally positive reception, there have been some common criticisms of 1Q84, including that the novel - at 925 pages long - is repetitive and could have done with more editing. ( Update: 1Q84 didn’t make the short list, though The Lake, by Murakami’s compatriot Banana Yoshimoto, did. The novel is now on the long list for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize, with the short list to be announced on 10 January. Happily, critical reception of 1Q84 has largely been positive, with some reviewers pronouncing it a masterpiece. So I was one of the fans eagerly counting down the days to the November 2011 release of the English translation of 1Q84 in Australia, a book anticipated to be Murakami’s magnum opus. In the past few years, I’ve read more books by him than by any other author and his work has had a strong influence on my own fiction writing. ![]() This was always going to be a biased review. ![]()
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