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What is it, is it about portals?

The book follows four characters, a girl assassin, a novelist, a 17 year old student and a 45 year old guy

>>6648034
"Oh that book, read it in Japanese a couple of years ago"
/hipster

>>6648049
How old is the girl assassin?

>>6648061
Thirty, her name is aomame, which means blue green bean,
If you were looking for loli murders, I suggest this book

>>6648070
CAN'T REA D SHI--
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Oh, OK then.

bump

Well that sure is an odd way to write 9.

Am I the only one who saw OP's picture and read "IQ 84" and though it was a book about people of below average intelligence and thought OP was trying to insult /jp/ers before reading his post?

While Murakami's earlier novels that I've read were a bit of hit-or-miss for me, I loved After Dark, so I'm eagerly waiting for this one.
If you're interested, here's a rather nice essay he wrote that caught my attention recently:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/opinion/global/02iht-GA06-Murakami.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all

It's already out in German, but 33€ is a bit much imho.

Waiting for paperback edition.

>>6648793
That's expensive as fuck. I'm right across the border from Germany, and it's out here too, with hardcover for something like 12€.

Comes out next september. Still won't be better than hbw.

>>6648831
It's the German "Buchpreisbindung" ("controlled book price").
If the publisher names a price for a book, you are forced to sell it at that price no matter what. There are several exceptions (second hand, damaged goods, bankruptcy sale, etc), but in the end people have to wait for the paperback edition to buy books at an acceptable price.
There are some upsides to this fixed price, but in the end I often end up buying books in English or (in simple cases) Japanese, since it's far cheaper even after customs.

>>6648881
Okay, got any source on that?
>>6648747
It's a wordplay on the way Japanese pronounce "9" and "Q".

>1984
Wait what

So, why that title?

I thought it would be some book about how societies are becoming Orwellian because of low IQ people. Maybe related to loli too, since it was posted in /jp/.

/autism

Part of wikipedia's Plot summary

The events of the story take place in 1984, with the first volume set between April and June, and the second between July and September.
The narrative is composed of two storylines that alternate by chapter. The book opens with Aomame's perspective as she catches a taxi in Tokyo on her way to a work assignment, noticing that Janáček's Sinfonietta is playing on the radio. When the taxi gets stuck in a traffic jam on the expressway, the driver suggests that she get out of the car and climb down an emergency escape in order to make her important meeting. Aomame makes her way to a hotel in Shibuya, where she poses as a hotel attendant in order to assassinate a hotel guest. She performs the murder with a tool that leaves almost no trace on its victim, leading investigators to conclude that he died a natural death.
As the story unfolds, Aomame has several bizarre experiences, including a string of memories that do not line up with the archives of major newspapers. One of them concerns a group of extremists who are engaged in a standoff with police in the mountains of Yamanashi Prefecture. Upon reading these articles, she concludes that she must be living in an alternate reality, and suspects that she entered it about the time she heard Sinfonietta on the radio.

>>6651055
No, it's about a loli genius with an IQ of 184 and the dilemmas she faces in her life. She is a perverted lesbian and wants to marry her college student girlfriend, but they cannot even have sex because the laws prevent her from doing so despite her clearly being capable of giving informed consent.

>>6651102
WOAH WOAH WOAH
I HAVE TO READ THIS

>>6651102
Best plot ever.

>>6651070
This sounds like Kafka on the Shore, I must read this.

>>6651019
>It's a wordplay on the way Japanese pronounce "9" and "Q".
Also "ku" in the sense of 苦?

>>6651277
きゅう　not く

>>6648070

anyone else get a boner by imagining what the book is about based on the front cover?

little asian girls... my favorite

>>6651408
>little asian girls
>swedish book
>mfw dumb pedo

>>6651408
Don't want to break it to you, but the loli in the book, "eli" Is a 300 year old shota vampire although she lives with a pedo who brings her blood in exchange for sexxx

>>6648881
hbw?

>>6651437

i wasnt going to read the book anyway, ive got real life child porn anyway

its so funny, people watch fictional movies and they get offended by what they see, whatever it is, and here i am, watching cp.

i wonder how these same people would react when i show them actual real life cp, not fiction?

Got excited cause I thought it was a book about a smart loli assassin or something, but then I read this
>loli genius with an IQ of 184 and the dilemmas she faces in her life. She is a perverted lesbian
>smart
>lesbian
>NOPE.AVI

>>6651501
It's fiction...

>>6651497
Your tripcode seems to change every time I see it.
>>6651501
I hear you bro, only a moron doesn't understand how awesome cocks are.

>>6651501
>>6651560
How do you two manage to be so dumb?

It was obviously a story created randomly by the /jp/ anon. The real story was posted after it.

>>6651408
Reported for †Invisible Sky Magician† http://invisibleskymagician.baywords.com##jesuslol

>>6651594
Fuck, I'm disappoint.

Well someone could make it into a VN or something now.

>>6651437
Well that sucks. Are they any books with actual loli assasins?

>>6651070
Sounds like autistic Hollywood thriller.

>>6651907
Yes.

But I don't know any of them. Where is Arc in the rare occasions we need him...

>>6648034
The book has already been translated to German. Considering buying it for christmas.

>>6651907

The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi
Metaplanetary, by Tony Daniel
The Collapsium, by Wil McCarthy (loli chief security officer of the Solar empire, kind of close)
The Valley of the Gardens, by Tony Daniel (loli fusion weapon with an adult male "handler"she has sex with, kind of close)

Well, fuck, just when I wanted some more books to download The Burgomeister's library died.

>>6651976
Why does wikipedia has no article on the Tony Daniel books?

>>6651996
Because Wikipedia is not a complete repository of all human knowledge, and has gaps in some places.

>>6651977
Just enter the title of the book and pdf in google, that works most of the time.

>>6651996
The second one is just a novella (from "The New Space Opera").

>>6652014
B-but... but...!