* Murakami, Haruki. 1Q84.(Brief article)(Book review)

* Murakami, Haruki. 1Q84. Knopf. Oct. 2011. c.928p, tr. from Japanese by Jay Rubin & Philip Gabriel. ISBN 9780307593313. $30.50. F

At the core of this work is a spectacular love story about a girl and boy who briefly held hands when they were both ten. That said, with the fiercely imaginative Murakami as author, the story's exposition is gloriously labyrinthine: welcome "into this enigma-filled world of 1Q84," which begins when sports club instructor Aomame exits a taxi and climbs down emergency stairs to bypass gridlocked traffic and make her next appointment. Meanwhile, cram school teacher and wannabe novelist Tengo is in muddled negotiations to rewrite secretly a …