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MURAKAMI HARUKI THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS

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.   'A love letter to books  libraries and librarians' Financial
Times   Books of the Year   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

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