After the quake blind willow, sleeping woman dance dance dance

little one
was there, 
inside her. She could swear her belly had grown from the night before. 
I still don’t know what sort of world this is
, she thought. 
But whatever world we’re 
in now, I’m sure this is where I will stay. Where
we 
will stay. This world must have its 
own threats, its own dangers, must be filled with its own type of riddles and 
contradictions. We may have to travel down many dark paths, leading who knows 
where. But that’s okay. It’s not a problem. I’ll just have to accept it. I’m not going 
anywhere. Come what may, this is where we’ll remain, in this world with one moon. 
The three of us—Tengo and me, and the
little one. 
Put a tiger in your tank, the Esso tiger said, his left profile toward them. But either 
side was fine. That big grin of his facing Aomame was natural and warm. 
I’m going 
to believe in that smile
, she told herself. 
That’s what’s important here
. She did her 
own version of the tiger’s smile. Very naturally, very gently. 
She quietly stretched out a hand, and Tengo took it. The two of them stood there, 
side by side, as one, wordlessly watching the moon over the buildings. Until the 
newly risen sun shone upon it, robbing it of its nighttime brilliance. Until it was 
nothing more than a gray paper moon, hanging in the sky. 

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 
Murakami, Haruki, [date] 
[1Q84. English] 
1Q84 / Haruki Murakami; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin and 
Philip Gabriel. — 1st ed. 
p. cm. 
eISBN: 978-0-307-95702-3 
I. Rubin, Jay, [date] II. Gabriel, Philip, [date] III. Title. 
PL856.U673A61213 2011 
895.6’35—dc22 
2011014274 
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint 
previously published material: 
Oneworld Classics Ltd:
Excerpts from 
Sakhalin Island
by Anton Chekhov, translated 
by Brian Reeve, copyright © 2007 by Brian Reeve. Reprinted by permission of 
Oneworld Classics Ltd. 
Random House, Inc. and The Estate of Isak Dinesen c/o Gyldendal Group Agency:
Excerpts from 
Out of Africa
by Isak Dinesen, copyright © 1937 by Random House, 
Inc. and copyright renewed 1965 by Rungstedlundfonden. Reprinted by permission of 
Random House, Inc. and The Estate of Isak Dinesen c/o Gyldendal Group Agency. 
SA Music LLC, Hal Leonard Corporation:
Excerpt from “It’s Only a Paper Moon,” 
music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Billy Rose and E. Y. “Yip” Harburg, copyright © 
1933 (renewed) by SA Music LLC/ASCAP, Chappell & Co., and Glocca Morra 
Music. All rights for Glocca Morra Music administered by Next Decade 
Entertainment, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of SA Music LLC, 
Hal Leonard Corporation. 
Photographs by Roméo Enriquez
v3.1 

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