The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami - hardcover - UK - 9781787304475 - Buku Original Periplus
The breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from the internationally bestselling author of 1Q84.
“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 It's Uncertain Walls
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.
ISBN: 9781787304475 ISBN-10: 1787304477 Available: 19th November 2024 Format: Hardcover Language: English Audience: General Adult Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK Dimensions (cm): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0.1