The City and Its Uncertain Walls: The Sunday Times bestselling novel from the author of Norwegian Wood - Hardcover

Murakami, Haruki

 
9781787304475: The City and Its Uncertain Walls: The Sunday Times bestselling novel from the author of Norwegian Wood
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1787304477 ISBN 13: 9781787304475
Verlag: Harvill Secker, 2024

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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.

'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

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Haruki Murakami (Author)
In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon.

In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.

Philip Gabriel (Translator)
Philip Gabriel is the author of Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature and Spirit Matters: The Transcendent in Modern Japanese Literature and has translated many novels and short stories by the writer Haruki Murakami and other modern writers. He is recipient of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature (2001) for his translation of Senji Kuroi’s Life in the Cul-de-Sac, and the 2006 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for his translation of Murakami's Kafka on the Shore.

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The long-awaited new novel from Haruki Murakami, his first in six years, revisits a Town his readers will remember, a place where a Dream Reader reviews dreams and where our shadows become untethered from our selves. A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for these strange post-pandemic times, The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature’s most important writers.

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Verlag
Harvill Secker
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1787304477
ISBN 13 
9781787304475
Einband
Tapa dura
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
464
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Harvill Secker
https://www.thalesgroup.com/en

Westarpstr. 2
Berlin
Berlin
10779
Deutschland

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