The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami author Philip Gabriel translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Publishing:9th Sep '25
£10.99
This title is due to be published on 9th September, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
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- Hardback£25.00(9781787304475)
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.
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 letter to books, libraries and librarians' Financial Times, Books of the Year
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
No other author mixes domestic, fantastic and esoteric elements into such weirdly bewitching shades. * Financial Times *
Regular readers will delight in the Easter eggs nested in an unsettling quest spun from Murakami’s long-patented dream logic * Observer, Best Novels Autumn 2024 *
An enveloping magical realist story * i *
A mysterious, magical book that reveals itself like a secret being said. Murakami offers a beguiling look at self and the lengths we go to for love * Hanako Footman, author of MONGREL *
[Murakami’s] imagination is one of a kind, and his blend of pop culture, postmodernism and Japanese mythology is a wholly unique contribution to literature * Washington Post *
Murakami blends the whimsical and the threatening with the skill of that other pre-eminent Japanese visionary, Hayao Miyazaki -- A.K. Blakemore * Guardian *
Spellbinding...oddly irresistible * Wall Street Journal *
A sublime meditation on time, age and love * Woman and Home *
One of his best. It feels at once sweeping and intimate, grand and tender, quiet and charged with feeling * Boston Globe *
Murakami’s favourite motifs proliferate as the boundaries between the real and unreal, conscious and unconscious, blur * Daily Mail *
ISBN: 9781529926941
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 35mm
Weight: 500g
464 pages