![]() ![]() ![]() The woman, Aomame, has done this sort of job before, and her life continues more or less as usual, until she notices that policemen's uniforms are somewhat different, and that they're carrying more serious handguns than she remembers. So climb down she does, finding her way out of a neglected storage area and off to her appointment - which turns out to entail killing a man with a very slender, very discreet silver needle to the back of the neck. Her taxi gets stuck in a traffic jam on an elevated highway, and the cabbie suggests that if she's really anxious to arrive on time, she might want to climb down a nearby utility access ladder and jump on the subway. "1Q84," Haruki Murakami's new meganovel (it was published in three volumes in his native Japan), begins with a young woman in business attire on her way to an appointment in Tokyo. ![]()
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