Book Review: The City and Its Uncertain Walls

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.