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A physical object could only be in one place at a time. “There is always, as I said, only one reality,” the driver repeated slowly, as if underlining an important passage in a book. Things may look different to you than they did before. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Am I right? People do not ordinarily climb down the emergency stairs of the Metropolitan Expressway-especially women.” The driver choses his words carefully: “It’s just that you’re about to do something out of ordinary. “What do you mean by that?” she asked with knitted brows. Things are not what they seem, Aomame repeated mentally. “… please remember: things are not what they seem.” She pays the driver and he thanks her and adds: She could then continue by bus or walking to arrive at her appointment on time.Īomame thinks for a moment and decides to take the emergency exit. When she speaks to the taxi driver, she gets the bad news: she will be late if she stays in the taxi, but maybe she would dare take an emergency stairway that drops from a freeway turnout a few yards in front of the stalled taxi. Chestnut-colored Charles Jordan heels and stockings complete the ensemble: she is “dressed to kill”, but worried that she may be late for her appointment. She is wearing a green, lightweight, wool Junko Shimada suit under a beige spring coat. In waiting rooms at the doctor’s or at public offices, people would look up at the sound of her name, curious to see what someone called ‘Green Peas’ could look like.

“When she announced her name on the telephone, she would often hear suppressed laughter.

“1984”, of course, is a reference to the George Orwell classic, 1984.Īs 1Q84 opens, an attractive, well-dressed martial arts instructor sits impatiently in the back seat of a taxi stalled in an immovable traffic jam on an elevated expressway that crosses Tokyo. Her name is Aomame (Ah-oh-ma-me) spelled with the Japanese characters for “Green Peas”. The “Q” in the title is a pun on the Japanese letter for “9”, which sounds like the English “Q”. 1Q84, The Year of Two Moons, photo by Claude Rieth, Google+ġQ84 is a love story set in Tokyo in 1984.