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The City and Its Uncertain Walls

SKU: 9781787304475
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  • Author:
    MURAKAMI Haruki
  • ISBN:
    9781787304475
  • Publication Date:
    November 2024
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    448
  • Binding:
    Hardback
  • Publisher:
    Random House
  • Country of Publication:
    United Kingdom
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
The City and Its Uncertain Walls

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

SKU: 9781787304475
Regular price $55.00
Unit price
per
  • Author:
    MURAKAMI Haruki
  • ISBN:
    9781787304475
  • Publication Date:
    November 2024
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    448
  • Binding:
    Hardback
  • Publisher:
    Random House
  • Country of Publication:
    United Kingdom

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The breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from the internationally bestselling author of 1Q84.

A novel about the porous boundary between the real and shadow worlds. After losing his beloved as a teenager, the narrator finds his way to the Town, a mysterious place where he finds work as a Dream Reader in the library. Back in the real world as an adult he tries to recapture his time in the Town by taking a job as a librarian in a remote location in Fukushima province, where he takes over the job from a ghost. When a boy, M, who visits the library every day, vanishes, the boundaries between spatial and temporal realities, and between individuals, seems to have been breached. A novel about the barriers, imaginary and real, that we put up between and within ourselves.

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  • The breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from the internationally bestselling author of 1Q84.

    A novel about the porous boundary between the real and shadow worlds. After losing his beloved as a teenager, the narrator finds his way to the Town, a mysterious place where he finds work as a Dream Reader in the library. Back in the real world as an adult he tries to recapture his time in the Town by taking a job as a librarian in a remote location in Fukushima province, where he takes over the job from a ghost. When a boy, M, who visits the library every day, vanishes, the boundaries between spatial and temporal realities, and between individuals, seems to have been breached. A novel about the barriers, imaginary and real, that we put up between and within ourselves.

The breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from the internationally bestselling author of 1Q84.

A novel about the porous boundary between the real and shadow worlds. After losing his beloved as a teenager, the narrator finds his way to the Town, a mysterious place where he finds work as a Dream Reader in the library. Back in the real world as an adult he tries to recapture his time in the Town by taking a job as a librarian in a remote location in Fukushima province, where he takes over the job from a ghost. When a boy, M, who visits the library every day, vanishes, the boundaries between spatial and temporal realities, and between individuals, seems to have been breached. A novel about the barriers, imaginary and real, that we put up between and within ourselves.