1Q84
1Q84Haruki Murakami1Q84, book 1
Characters in 1Q84
8 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Aomame
A fitness instructor and covert assassin who leaves the Shuto Expressway by an emergency stairway and finds herself in a subtly altered 1984.
Also in 1Q84. Buch 3
Tengo Kawana
A cram-school maths teacher and unpublished novelist who agrees to secretly rewrite a teenage girl's manuscript.
Also in 1Q84. Buch 3
Supporting characters
Ushikawa
A dogged, physically grotesque investigator hired to track Aomame and Tengo, and the third viewpoint of Book 3.
Also in 1Q84. Buch 3
Fuka-Eri
Eriko Fukada, the seventeen-year-old dyslexic author of Air Chrysalis, the novella at the centre of the plot.
Tamaru
The dowager's security chief and Aomame's most capable ally.
Komatsu
The editor who devises the plan to have Air Chrysalis rewritten and published.