For the first time in Russian - the most anticipated novelty of the year, the latest novel by the most famous author of modern Japanese prose, the main literary sensation of the new century, “a magnum opus of an illustrious master” and “a must-read for anyone who wants to understand Japanese culture today” , as critics put it. The action of the book takes place not so much in the year one thousand nine hundred and eighty-four, but in one thousand unknown hundred and eighty-four, in a world where some see two moons in the sky, where the key to eternal love is Janacek’s Symphonietta, where the police, after a shootout with sectarians that shook the whole country, were rearmed with automatic weapons. pistols instead of revolvers, where LittlePeople - Little People - come out of the mouth of a dead goat and weave an Airy Cocoon. Translation from Japanese into Ukrainian Ivan Dzyubas Ukrainian into Russian Yuri Kalmykov