The City and Its Uncertain Walls

The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a parable for these strange times, following a young mans quest to find his girlfriend in an imaginary city.

Format: Hardback
Length: 464 pages
Publication date: 19 November 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing

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 mans 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 hes 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.

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

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.

Weight: 694g
Dimension: 242 x 162 x 40 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781787304475