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Start giftingThe City and Its Uncertain Walls
A Novel
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Brian Nishii
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Philip Gabriel
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English
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“As Murakami explains, with this book - he dusted off an older short story that had been sitting around since the start of his career. Murakami completists may recognize it. Initially, he only meant to do some slight tweaking of the story. Instead, he ended up significantly expanding it.As indicated by the book title, the story involves a mysterious 'walled city' and the efforts of the protagonist to arrive at an understanding of the shifting purposes and natures of the 'walls' along with the effect produced by 'shadows' of those 'walls'. Along the way, the protagonist gets a job as a librarian in the city of Fukushima (!) where he encounters both his 'predecessor' and possible successor. The story continues towards an ending that is Murakami in nature. Definitely worth your time to read it!”
— Bud • Quail Ridge Books
From the bestselling 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 these 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
"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.
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.
