The first volume, containing Books 1 and 2, was published on October 18, 2011, followed by the second volume, containing Book 3, published on October 25, 2011. In the United Kingdom the novel was published by Harvill Secker in two volumes. The cover for the box-set, featuring a transparent dust jacket, was created by Chip Kidd and Maggie Hinders. In English translation, Knopf published the novel in the United States in a single volume on October 25, 2011, and released a three volume box-set on May 15, 2015. Book 1 and Book 2 were both published on Book 3 was published on April 16, 2010. The novel was originally published in Japan in three hardcover volumes by Shinchosha. The first chapter of 1Q84 has also been read as an excerpt at Selected Shorts. An excerpt from the novel, 'Town of Cats', appeared in the Septemissue of The New Yorker magazine. The English-language edition of all three volumes, with the first two volumes translated by Jay Rubin and the third by Philip Gabriel, was released in North America and the United Kingdom on October 25, 2011.

The novel quickly became a sensation, with its first printing selling out the day it was released, and reaching sales of one million within a month. 1Q84 ( いちきゅうはちよん, Ichi-Kyū-Hachi-Yon, One Q Eighty-Four or Q-teen Eighty-Four or ichi-kew-hachi-yon) is a dystopian novel written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, first published in three volumes in Japan in 2009–10.

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