Even if it there is a - small - handful of contemporary writers that I consider superior to Murakami (Roth, Houellebecq, Ellis), I must say that none gives me as much pleasure reading ... and this first volume of his ultra-famous and ultra celebrated "1Q84" has even sucked me into the kind of frenetic whirlwind happy reading one considers usually reserved for the most US thrillers touts. It is here Murakami combines unprecedented overwhelming elegance of style, exciting fiction (double narrative that progresses slightly playful way as a thriller, precisely) about fascinating characters, and - this is the least we expect a writer GRAND - complexity and thematic depth. Over 500 pages of exquisite pleasure, refined surprises, a little perverse intellectual games, sensuality and feelings of a beautiful fineness (In reading some negative reviews on this book, I also realized that what ails most critics of Murakami is the ease that seems almost exaggerated with which he builds his universe and its characters encased adrift ...). It includes closing the first volume, which leaves us in yet in full rise of adrenaline, the reasons of global popular success of a work as masterful.
