The City and Its Uncertain Walls (First American Edition)
Language: English
Published by Knopf, New York, 2024
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New York: Knopf, 2024. First American edition. First printing. Hardbound. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. A clean, tight, new unread copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($32.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. Octavo. 464 pages. Bound in black paper boards with silver spine lettering. This novel is an expanded and reimagined version of a short story Murakami originally published in the September 1980 issue of the Japanese literary magazine Bungakukai. The story had never before appeared in English nor in any of Murakami's collected volumes, and the novel marks its first official publication in translation. The novel revisits and deepens themes first explored in Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985). "The City and Its Uncertain Walls" is Murakami's fifteenth novel, and his first since Killing Commendatore (2017). Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.
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- Title
- The City and Its Uncertain Walls (First American Edition)
- Author
- Murakami, Haruki
- Publisher
- Knopf, New York
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- As new
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0593801970
- ISBN 13
- 9780593801970
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Japanese Literature
"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
When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he is heartbroken – and determined to find the imaginary town where he suspects she has taken up residence. Thus begins a lifelong search that takes the man into middle age, to a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own, and on a journey between the real world and this otherworld: a shadowless city where unicorns roam and willow trees grow.
There he finds his beloved working in a different library – a dream library. But she has no memory of their life together and, as the seasons pass and the man grows more uncertain about the porous boundaries between these two worlds, he must decide what he is 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– and singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature’s most important writers.
"Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change/movement. Isn't this the quintessential core of what stories are all about?” —Haruki Murakami, from the afterword
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