The City and Its Uncertain Walls

Haruki Murakami

£25.00

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

Hardback

Fiction > Fiction in translation

ISBN: 9781787304475

Description

A novel about the porous boundary between the real and shadow worlds.

After losing his beloved as a teenager, the narrator finds his way to the Town, a mysterious place where he finds work as a Dream Reader in the library.

Back in the real world as an adult he tries to recapture his time in the Town by taking a job as a librarian in a remote location in Fukushima province, where he takes over the job from a ghost.

When a boy, M, who visits the library every day, vanishes, the boundaries between spatial and temporal realities, and between individuals, seems to have been breached.

A novel about the barriers, imaginary and real, that we put up between and within ourselves.

 

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Weight 1 kg
Dimensions 25 × 17 × 8 cm