The City and Its Uncertain Walls

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Harry Hartog's review

In the town, you are separated from your shadow, and live doing the work prescribed to you within its subtly changing walls, and the clock with no hands marks the not-passing of not-time because, after all, once you are separated from their shadow and your shadow dies, you can never leave the town again. Haruki Murakami is back for his first full length novel in six years, full of his signature style, charm and individual quirks that his readers have come to love. - Seb, Harry Hartog Burnside



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The breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from the internationally bestselling author of 1Q84.

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.

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

ISBN:
9781787304475
Format:
Hardback
Pages:
464
Published:
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Weight:
691 g

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