Author: Haruki Murakami
Date: 2010
Genre: Alternate History
Country: Japan
It covers a fictionalized year of 1984 in parallel with a “real” one. The novel is a story of how a woman named Aomame begins to notice strange changes occurring in the world. She is quickly caught up in a plot involving Sakigake, a religious cult, and her childhood love, Tengo, and embarks on a journey to discover what is “real”.