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The breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from the internationally bestselling author of 1Q84.
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.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 464
Imprint: Harvill Secker UK
Publication date: 19/11/2024
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
By Haruki Murakami
Review by Harriet
I’ve been entranced by the Murakami reading experience since I was a teenager, and here I particularly loved revisiting, and exploring in greater detail, the shifty walled town from an earlier novel.
Strange, faintly sinister worlds, libraries, mentors with mysterious agendas, calm, detached domesticity, and oddly compelling food writing, all combine to produce that indefinable Murakami magic; at once, playful and solemn.
If you’re already acquainted with his work, this will, most satisfyingly, scratch the itch, but first-time readers may be better to start with previous books: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle is my pick to begin.
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