Interspersed with Aomame’s narrative are chapters written from the perspective of Tengo Kawana, a classmate who knew Aomame in elementary school. When she emerges at street level, Aomame notices subtle changes that weren’t there just hours earlier and later sees that there are two moons in the sky. Before she does so, the cab driver warns her, “fter you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little” (9). Rather than miss her appointment, Aomame leaves the cab and descends an emergency stairway. She is running late for an appointment at a hotel, where she plans to assassinate a wealthy oil executive as retribution for abusing his wife. In 1984 Tokyo, 30-year-old Masami Aomame sits in a cab that is stuck in traffic on the expressway. This study guide refers to the 2011 edition published by Alfred A.
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