Haruki Murakami

"Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change/movement. Isn't this the quintessential core of what stories are all about?" —Haruki Murakami, from the afterword to The City and Its Uncertain Walls The long-awaited new novel from Haruki Murakami, his first in six years, revisits a Town his readers will remember, a place where a Dream Reader reviews dreams and where our shadows become untethered from our selves. A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for these strange post-pandemic times, The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature’s most important writers.

A Novel

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

街とその不確かな壁

Bastien Vaucher

"Have you ever loved anyone else as much as you loved that girl? Had someone who was that precious to you?" I gave it some thought, though I really didn't need to. "I've met several women over the years and liked some of them. And had fairly intimate relations with them. But I've never felt the same way I did with that girl, not even once. That unadulterated feeling where your mind goes blank, like you're in the middle of a deep dream though it's daytime, like you can think of nothing else.

"I think I've been waiting for that unadulterated emotion to grab me again. Or for the woman, the person, who gave me that feeling."

Jemima Scott

‘Sometimes numbers can be more eloquent than words.’

‘Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change and movement. Isn't this the quintessential core of what stories are all about? At least that's how I see it.’

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