The City and Its Uncertain Walls

STEP INTO THE CITY 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. PRAISE FOR HARUKI MURAKAMI ''The world''s most popular cult novelist'' Guardian ''Wild and thrilling. . . Murakami is a master storyteller and he knows how to keep us hooked'' Sunday Times '' Totally gripping'' Daily Express ''It''s safe to say that there''s no one like Murakami'' Literary Review ''No other author mixes domestic, fantastic and esoteric elements into such weirdly bewitching shades'' Financial Times

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A masterpiece... quietly miraculous... The greatest books...are those which enable us to enter their worlds, just as Murakami's narrator enters his mysterious libraries Telegraph *****

Product details

• Authors: Haruki Murakami
• Assisted by: Philip Gabriel (Translation), Gabriel Philip (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 09.09.2025
• EAN: 9781529926941
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-2694-1
• No. of pages: 449
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fantasy, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Fukushima, FICTION / Magical Realism, FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Magical Realism, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, FICTION / World Literature / Japan, Metaphysical / philosophical fiction