1Q84 First Edition A Ladder to the Sky

A Ladder to the Sky is a fascinating portrait of a relentlessly immoral man

a man with a powerful--and seemingly limitless--imagination

He lands on the island of the Wild Things

But the true saga of her life has never been fully told

a mysterious she-demon who seems to be the only one willing to tell him the truth

1Q84 First Edition A Ladder to the SkyThe year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi drivers enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 Q is for question mark. A world that bears a question. Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author