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MURAKAMI HARUKI THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEA R • A REAL SIMPLE BEST BOOK
OF THE YEAR • 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  
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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