In the third and final book of the 1Q84 trilogy Murakami continues his alternating chapters chronicling Tengo and Aomame's lives, she on the run from the Sakigake religious cult, he coping with the slipping of his estranged father further away from him into a coma. But we now have a third set of chapters, from the grotesquely deformed private detective Ushikawa, employed by Sakigake to find Aomame and establish the truth regarding her role in the death of the cult's Leader. As two moons, our normal satellite and a malformed smaller green companion, rise in the sky, the three main narrators dance around each other, slowly drawing closer until their worlds collide and Aomame takes a stand. As the climax comes the narrative begins to fragment, words begin to slip and continuity becomes a little shaky. The chapters don't run in chronological order, time sliding in this 'wrong' world. And all beautifully written.
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