This script from the official web site of 1Q84 is clearly mocking me, with its furry tail.
Book 1 and 2 of 1Q84 are out in Italy, but it seems Book 3 won’t be until next October. This is driving me crazy, as the English translation is already out. I normally prefer reading Japanese authors in Italian, because I find the Italian consonant-vowel syllable to suit the Japanese syllable, and therefore rhythm, much better. But this time I will have to make and exception.
As the story goes, Book2 was supposed to close the novel, but then Murakami-san decided that there was more to be told and so he wrote Book 3, and Japanese readers patiently waited one full year to read it. But they didn’t have the English version available basically everywhere for a few dollars on those very annoying e-book readers!
This existence of Book 3 on the international market actually turns the enigmatic ending of Book 2 into a cliffhanger. Now, I love enigmatic endings, and I do hate cliffhangers. For example, I loathed having to explain people for two years that Snape was obviously the good guy, despite having killed Dumbledore.
(This is not a spoiler, isn’t it? Dumbledore has been dead for ages now!)
