The novel is a sub-melodramatic sentimental metafictional love story in a ficticious world with two moons in the sky, a thriller packed with cults, assassinations and grotesque sex (newyorkobserver). The title is a play on the Japanese pronunciation of the year 1984 of George Orwell. The novel was longlisted for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize and placed No. 2 in Amazon.com's top books of the year.
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- New York Times bestseller
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- Fiction
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- Man-woman relationships
- Dystopian
- Magical Realism
- Literary
- Authors
- Man-woman relationship
- Assassins
- Maestros universitarios
- Relaciones hombre-mujer
- Asesinato
- Assassination
- Asesinos
- Detective and mystery stories
- College teachers
- Ficción
- Autores
- alternative reality
- Japanese fiction
- Translations into Chinese
- Chang pian xiao shuo
- Teachers
- Translations into Portuguese
- Novelists
- Japanese literature
- Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Tokyo (japan), fiction
- New York Times reviewed
- General
- Japanese fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English
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