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The City and Its Uncertain Walls

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10 1787304477
ISBN-13 9781787304475
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Imprint Harvill Secker
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Nov 19th, 2024
Print length 464 Pages
Weight 700 grams
Dimensions 24.20 x 16.20 x 4.00 cms
Ksh 4,500.00
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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. STEP INTO THE CITY. . . When 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. 'A love letter to books, libraries and librarians' Financial Times, Books of the YearPRAISE 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

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.

STEP INTO THE CITY. . .

When 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.

''A love letter to books, libraries and librarians'' Financial Times, Books of the Year


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


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