trade paperback, 1158 pages
English language
Published July 14, 2013 by Vintage.
trade paperback, 1158 pages
English language
Published July 14, 2013 by Vintage.
The novel is a sub-melodramatic sentimental metafictional love story in a ficticious world with two moons in the sky, a thriller packed with cults, assassinations and grotesque sex (newyorkobserver). The title is a play on the Japanese pronunciation of the year 1984 of George Orwell. The novel was longlisted for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize and placed No. 2 in Amazon.com's top books of the year.