THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS HARVİLL SECKER — MURAKAMİ HARUKİ

The City and Its Uncertain Walls STEP INTO THE CITYWhen 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 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 Review A cosy masterpiece with agony between its lines The City and Its Uncertain Walls is quietly miraculous The greatest books are those which enable us to enter their worlds just as Murakami s narrator enters his mysterious libraries Telegraph No other author mixes domestic fantastic and esoteric elements into such weirdly bewitching shades Financial Times Regular readers will delight in the Easter eggs nested in an unsettling quest spun from Murakami s long patented dream logic Observer A mysterious magical book that reveals itself like a secret being said Murakami offers a beguiling look at self and the lengths we go to for love Hanako Footman author of MONGREL A sublime meditation on time age and love Woman and Home Tanıtım Bülteninden