Name: The City and Its Uncertain Walls
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Author: Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 9781787304475

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Haruki Murakami

Publisher

Harvill Secker

Year

2024

Language

English

Pages

464

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24.0cm x 15.6cm

ISBN13

9781787304475

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

Haruki Murakami (Author) · Harvill Secker · Hardcover

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Synopsis "The City and Its Uncertain Walls"

The breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from the internationally bestselling author of 1Q84.

“Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change/movement. Isn't this the quintessential core of what stories are all about?” – Haruki Murakami, from the afterword to The City and Its Uncertain Walls

The long-awaited new novel from Haruki Murakami, his first in six years, revisits a Town his readers will remember, a place where a Dream Reader reviews dreams and where our shadows become untethered from our selves. A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for these strange post-pandemic times, The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature’s most important writers.

A novel about the porous boundary between the real and shadow worlds. After losing his beloved as a teenager, the narrator finds his way to the Town, a mysterious place where he finds work as a Dream Reader in the library. Back in the real world as an adult he tries to recapture his time in the Town by taking a job as a librarian in a remote location in Fukushima province, where he takes over the job from a ghost.

When a boy, M, who visits the library every day, vanishes, the boundaries between spatial and temporal realities, and between individuals, seems to have been breached. A novel about the barriers, imaginary and real, that we put up between and within ourselves.

Haruki Murakami

(Author)

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(Kyoto, 1949) is one of the few Japanese authors who have made the leap from prestigious writer to best-selling author worldwide. He has received numerous awards, including the Noma, the Tanizaki, the Yomiuri, the Franz Kafka, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Hans Christian Andersen, and his name is repeatedly mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In Spain, he has earned the Archbishop Juan de San Clemente Award, the Order of Arts and Letters, awarded by the Spanish Government, the International Catalonia Prize 2011, and the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature 2023. Additionally, he is a marathon runner, triathlete, music lover, adores kittens, and greatly enjoys American literature.

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