The Haruki Murakami novel featuring the character Aomame is '1Q84'. Aomame, whose full name is Masami Aomame, is one of the novel's two principal viewpoints, alongside Tengo Kawana.
The story begins when Aomame leaves a taxi during a traffic jam and descends an emergency staircase beside Tokyo's Shuto Expressway. She gradually realizes that she has entered a subtly altered version of 1984, a parallel world with two moons. Her storyline involves a mysterious religious cult, a wealthy older woman known as the Dowager, and a series of targeted killings of abusive men.
'1Q84' was published in Japan in three volumes in 2009 and 2010, then released in English in 2011. The title echoes George Orwell's '1984', while the Japanese pronunciation of the number nine, 'kyū', creates a wordplay linking the title to an altered 1984. Readers sometimes confuse Aomame with Murakami characters from other novels, but she is uniquely associated with this parallel-world narrative.