PRE-ORDER: The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

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 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.

REVIEWS

"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

PRODUCT DETAILS
Hardcover Edition
Publisher: Harvill Secker
ISBN: 978-1787304475
Pages: 464