EAN: 9780593801970

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

From the bestselling 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   We begin with a nameless young couple: a boy and a girl teenagers in love. One day she disappears . . . and her absence haunts him for the rest of his life.   Thus begins a search for this lost love that takes the man into middle age and on a journey between the real world and an other world – a mysterious perhaps imaginary walled town where unicorns roam where a Gatekeeper determines who can enter and who must remain behind and where shadows become untethered from their selves. Listening to his own dreams and premonitions the man leaves his life in Tokyo behind and ventures to a small mountain town where he becomes the head librarian only to learn the mysterious circumstances surrounding the gentleman who had the job before him. As the seasons pass and the man grows more uncertain about the porous boundaries between these two worlds he meets a strange young boy who helps him to see what he’s been missing all along.   The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a 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

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