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MURAKAMI HARUKI THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS

From the bestselling 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  
We begin with a nameless young couple: a boy and a girl  teenagers in love. One day  she
disappears . . . and her absence haunts him for the rest of his life.   Thus begins a search
for this lost love that takes the man into middle age and on a journey between the real world
and an other world – a mysterious  perhaps imaginary  walled town where unicorns roam  where a
Gatekeeper determines who can enter and who must remain behind  and where shadows become
untethered from their selves. Listening to his own dreams and premonitions  the man leaves his
life in Tokyo behind and ventures to a small mountain town  where he becomes the head librarian
only to learn the mysterious circumstances surrounding the gentleman who had the job before
him. As the seasons pass and the man grows more uncertain about the porous boundaries between
these two worlds  he meets a strange young boy who helps him to see what he’s been missing all
along.    The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a 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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