Search for your favourite author or book

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

ISBN 
9781787304475
Format 
Hardback
Recommended Price 
R665.00
Published 
December 2024
About the book: 
The breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from the internationally bestselling author of 1Q84.
 
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.
Other titles by this author 
About the Author

Haruki Murakami is the author of many novels as well as short stories and non-fiction. His books include Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, The Strange Library  and Wind/Pinball.  His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and the most recent of his many international honours are the Jerusalem Prize and Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.

Photograph © Elena Seibert

Others also viewed

Citizen  changed the conversation. Just Us  moves it forward again - and this time,...
It’s Christmas Eve in Harlem, but twelve-year-old Lolly Rachpaul and his mom aren’t...
It is a year after the action of One of Us Is Lying,  and someone has started playing a game...
Welcome to motherhood - a land of aching fatigue, constant self-sacrifice and thankless servitude,...