In the spirit of epics past I am going to review the novel as a singular, nearly one thousand page entity. Haruki Murakami’s IQ84 is a rare exception to this, a multi-million selling novel that is also what critics like to call a “serious work of fiction.” Initially released in Japan in two stages, books one and two in May 2009 and then book three in April 2010, it was only last October the novel arrived in the UK, released in the same pattern although all three volumes can now be bought as one in paperback. It’s a book about freedom.In recent years the phrase “major literary event” has been used to mean literary in the sense that it happens to be a book rather than a film (very temporarily) that is creating headlines around the world, notably Dan Brown, Harry Potter, Twilight etc. All the while, the President of the United States has to keep voters’ heads from blowing up before re-elections - things couldn’t get worse.Ī timely satire that dives into the darkest corners of American Culture, IQ84 examines some of the most controversial issues in America today. He's just a simple American with a government job and a fantastic phone who one day finds himself at the epicenter of the biggest biological terrorist attack perpetrated on American soil.
Now David Dingle doesn't know much about these people, but frankly, he doesn't know much about much.
Some of them include a Las Vegas cocktail waitress, an ineffective jihadist, a Grand Dragon of the KKK, a creationist and his very extended family, a pill-popping doctor, a drop-dead sexy clepto-nympho-suicidal-maniac, and a rogue Illuminati mastermind to name just a few. A lot of people revolve around David Dingle. He's the not-too-bright guy whom this whole story revolves around. And millions of idiots determined to figure out why their heads aren't blowing up. Anyone with an IQ over 84 is in danger - people's heads are exploding - the country is on lockdown. An unknown terrorist has released a biological weapon onto the American public.
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