# The City and Its Uncertain Walls - Paperback

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by **Haruki Murakami** (Author), **Philip Gabriel** (Translator)

**_NEW YORK TIMES_ BESTSELLER _\-_ A _GLOBE AND MAIL_ BEST BOOK OF THE YEA_R -_ A _REAL SIMPLE_ BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR _-_ From the author of _Norwegian Wood_ and _Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World_ comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for our peculiar times.**

**_"_Haruki Murakami invented 21st-century fiction." --_The New York Times - "_More than any author since Kafka, Murakami appreciates the genuine strangeness of our real world." _--San Francisco Chronicle - "_Murakami is masterful._" --Los Angeles Times_**

When a young man's girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he is heartbroken - and determined to find the imaginary town where he suspects she has taken up residence. Thus begins a lifelong search that takes the man into middle age, to a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own, and on a journey between the real world and this otherworld: a shadowless city where unicorns roam and willow trees grow.

There he finds his beloved working in a different library - a dream library. But she has no memory of their life together and, as the seasons pass and the man grows more uncertain about the porous boundaries between these two worlds, he must decide what he is 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- and singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature's most important writers.

_"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_  

### Author Biography

HARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and one of the most recent of his many international honors is the Cino Del Duca World Prize, whose previous recipients include Jorge Luis Borges, Ismail Kadare, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Joyce Carol Oates.

**Number of Pages:** 464

**Dimensions:** 1 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN

**Publication Date:** September 09, 2025

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