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The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Hardback Edition: 1
COMING IN NOVEMBER 2024 - PRE-ORDER NOW!
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.
Pages : 448
Publisher : Random House
Publication date : 2024-11-26
Subjects: Fiction, Published in the UK, Contemporary, Fiction In Translation