The City and Its Uncertain Walls: A Novel by Haruki Murakami Paperback Book

Description: The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for our peculiar times. "Haruki Murakami invented 21st-century fiction." —The New York Times • "More than any author since Kafka, Murakami appreciates the genuine strangeness of our real world." —San Francisco Chronicle • "Murakami is masterful." —Los Angeles Times We begin with a nameless young couple: a boy and a girl, teenagers in love. One day, she disappears . . . and her absence haunts him for the rest of his life. Thus begins a search for this lost love that takes the man into middle age and on a journey between the real world and an other world – a mysterious, perhaps imaginary, walled town where unicorns roam, where a Gatekeeper determines who can enter and who must remain behind, and where shadows become untethered from their selves. Listening to his own dreams and premonitions, the man leaves his life in Tokyo behind and ventures to a small mountain town, where he becomes the head librarian, only to learn the mysterious circumstances surrounding the gentleman who had the job before him. As the seasons pass and the man grows more uncertain about the porous boundaries between these two worlds, he meets a strange young boy who helps him to see what hes been missing all along. The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a singular and towering achievement by one of modern literatures most important writers. "Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change/movement. Isnt this the quintessential core of what stories are all about?" —Haruki Murakami, from the afterword FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography HARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and one of the most recent of his many international honors is the Cino Del Duca World Prize, whose previous recipients include Jorge Luis Borges, Ismail Kadare, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Joyce Carol Oates. Review "It is with unabashed joy that I am here to report: The City and Its Uncertain Walls, Murakamis first novel in six years, is also one of his best. It feels at once sweeping and intimate, grand and tender, quiet and charged with feeling. The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a paean to books, reading, and libraries, an investigation into the relationship between romance and realism, and a timely fable about how relationships, societies, and communities both protect themselves against threats and foster beauty and truth." —Priscilla Gilman, Boston Globe "Spellbinding. . . . [An] oddly irresistible fable. . . . [The] eerie landscape of snows, forests and torrents is beautifully evoked as Mr. Murakami the seasoned storyteller of loss, loneliness and passing time takes charge. The action dawdles, then leaps, with a trademark blend of soap opera and sublimity. In deadpan, slow-burn, quietly hypnotic prose, delicately conveyed in Mr. Gabriels translation, our narrator settles into a becalmed life as guardian of the small-town library stacks. . . . Mr. Murakami understands these parallel territories of the mind not simply as escapism but as a precious refuge for those who had never put down roots in this world. He conjures the charm, and also the harm, of all-consuming obsessions. In the perfect walled town, no cats prowl, because nothing unneeded can exist there." —Boyd Tonkin, The Wall Street Journal "[Murakamis] imagination is one of a kind, and his blend of pop culture, postmodernism and Japanese mythology is a wholly unique contribution to literature." —Jonathan Russell Clark, The Washington Post "Mysterious, illusive… there is something about the way [Murakami] writes that is so captivating."—Rumaan Alam, The Today Show "Ghostbustlingly alive. I was moved by [Murakamis] portrait of impossible loss, how it can carve within us a Stygian underworld to which we are always being summoned. I even interpreted Murakamis stinting on fictional norms as an attempt to more directly represent the self-exiling quality of melancholic grief." —Junot Diaz, New York Times "As we stare down social and ecological disasters, we need new ways to talk about what is real. Murakami writes most transparently about our contemporary moment toward the end of his latest novel in a reflection on the pandemic of the soul." —Renee Sims, Los Angeles Times … "Astonishing, puzzling, and hallucinatory as only Murakami can be, and one of his most satisfying tales."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) … "The ingenuity of Murakamis tale lies in the resonances he establishes between the two worlds…Its an astonishing achievement." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) … "Murakami fans, of course, will appreciate his iconic tropes—lost love, loneliness, missing women, and other realities—along with his comforting leitmotifs, namely cats, whiskey, jazz and classical music, and beloved books. In Murakamis multiverses, as always, fascination dominates." — Booklist (starred review) … "In his trademark assured, graceful prose, Murakami has produced a work of tremendous ambition that on a sentence-by-sentence level feels like sitting down with a friend tohear them tell a very strange story. Its another masterwork from one of our finest living novelists, and a must-read for Murakami devotees."—Book Page (starred review) … "At times a meditation on romance, reality vs. fantasy, ghosts, and the power of written words, this metaphysical novel examines the questionable value of timekeeping while thoroughly exploring unconditional love, self-imposed constraints, and deaths of ones body and soul."—Library Journal (starred review) Details ISBN Author Philip Gabriel Edition Description Large type / large print edition Year 2024 Translator Philip Gabriel ISBN-13 9798217013975 Format Paperback Audience General Publisher Diversified Publishing Imprint Random House Large Print Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2024-11-19 US Release Date 2024-11-19 Subtitle A Novel Pages 704 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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