The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Murakami, Haruki

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

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Author: Haruki Murakami
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The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Murakami, Haruki

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

$53.99

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

$53.99
Author: Haruki Murakami
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A REAL SIMPLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - From the author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for our peculiar times.

"Haruki Murakami invented 21st-century fiction." --The New York Times - "More than any author since Kafka, Murakami appreciates the genuine strangeness of our real world." --San Francisco Chronicle - "Murakami is masterful." --Los Angeles Times

When a young man's girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he is heartbroken - and determined to find the imaginary town where he suspects she has taken up residence. Thus begins a lifelong search that takes the man into middle age, to a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own, and on a journey between the real world and this otherworld: a shadowless city where unicorns roam and willow trees grow.

There he finds his beloved working in a different library - a dream library. But she has no memory of their life together and, as the seasons pass and the man grows more uncertain about the porous boundaries between these two worlds, he must decide what he is 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- and singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature's most important writers.

"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

Author: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 11/19/2024
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.63lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780593801970


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2024
Library Journal 10/01/2024 pg. 2
Booklist 09/01/2024 pg. 28
Publishers Weekly 11/18/2024
Shelf Awareness 11/17/2024
BookPage 12/01/2024

About the Author
HARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and one of the most recent of his many international honors is the Cino Del Duca World Prize, whose previous recipients include Jorge Luis Borges, Ismail Kadare, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Joyce Carol Oates.

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