The City and Its Uncertain Walls
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The City and Its Uncertain Walls
The breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from the internationally bestselling author of 1Q84.
STEP INTO THE CITY
When a young man's girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he sets his heart on finding the imaginary city where her true self lives. His search will lead him to take a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own.
When he finally makes it to the walled city, a shadowless place of horned beasts and willow trees, he finds his beloved working in a different library - a dream library. But she has no memory of their life together in the other world and, as the lines between reality and fantasy start to blur, he must decide what he's willing to lose.
A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a parable for these strange times.
PRAISE FOR HARUKI MURAKAMI
'The world's most popular cult novelist' - Guardian
'Wild and thrilling... Murakami is a master storyteller and he knows how to keep us hooked' - Sunday Times
'Totally gripping' - Daily Express
'It's safe to say that there's no one like Murakami' - Literary Review
'No other author mixes domestic, fantastic, and esoteric elements into such weirdly bewitching shades' - Financial Times
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781787304475
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 19 November 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Harvill Secker
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 40.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 240.0mm
Weight: 750g
Pages: 464
About the Author
In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.
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