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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2024
- ISBN
- 9780593801970
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0593801970
ISBN-13
9780593801970
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19065849537
Product Key Features
Book Title
City and Its Uncertain Walls : a Novel
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2024
Topic
Fantasy / Contemporary, Occult & Supernatural, Magical Realism, Literary
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
25.5 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2024-017338
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"It is with unabashed joy that I am here to report: The City and Its Uncertain Walls , Murakami''s first novel in six years, is also one of his best. It feels at once sweeping and intimate, grand and tender, quiet and charged with feeling. The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a paean to books, reading, and libraries, an investigation into the relationship between romance and realism, and a timely fable about how relationships, societies, and communities both protect themselves against threats and foster beauty and truth." --Priscilla Gilman, Boston Globe "Spellbinding. . . . [An] oddly irresistible fable. . . . [The] eerie landscape of snows, forests and torrents is beautifully evoked as Mr. Murakami the seasoned storyteller of loss, loneliness and passing time takes charge. The action dawdles, then leaps, with a trademark blend of soap opera and sublimity. In deadpan, slow-burn, quietly hypnotic prose, delicately conveyed in Mr. Gabriel''s translation, our narrator settles into a becalmed life as guardian of the small-town library stacks. . . . Mr. Murakami understands these parallel territories of the mind not simply as escapism but as a precious refuge for those who ''had never put down roots in this world.'' He conjures the charm, and also the harm, of all-consuming obsessions. In the perfect walled town, no cats prowl, because ''nothing unneeded'' can exist there." --Boyd Tonkin, The Wall Street Journal " [Murakami''s] imagination is one of a kind, and his blend of pop culture, postmodernism and Japanese mythology is a wholly unique contribution to literature." --Jonathan Russell Clark, The Washington Post "Mysterious, illusive... there is something about the way [Murakami] writes that is so captivating." --Rumaan Alam, The Today Show " Ghostbustlingly alive. I was moved by [Murakami''s] portrait of impossible loss, how it can carve within us a Stygian underworld to which we are always being summoned. I even interpreted Murakami''s stinting on fictional norms as an attempt to more directly represent the self-exiling quality of melancholic grief." --Junot Diaz, New York Times "As we stare down social and ecological disasters, we need new ways to talk about what is real. Murakami writes most transparently about our contemporary moment toward the end of his latest novel in a reflection on the ''pandemic of the soul." --Renee Sims, Los Angeles Times "Astonishing, puzzling, and hallucinatory as only Murakami can be, and one of his most satisfying tales." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "The ingenuity of Murakami''s tale lies in the resonances he establishes between the two worlds...It''s an astonishing achievement." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Murakami fans, of course, will appreciate his iconic tropes--lost love, loneliness, missing women, and other realities--along with his comforting leitmotifs, namely cats, whiskey, jazz and classical music, and beloved books. In Murakami''s multiverses, as always, fascination dominates." -- Booklist (starred review) "In his trademark assured, graceful prose, Murakami has produced a work of tremendous ambition that on a sentence-by-sentence level feels like sitting down with a friend tohear them tell a very strange story. It''s another masterwork from one of our finest living novelists, and a must-read for Murakami devotees." -- Book Page (starred review) "At times a meditation on romance, reality vs. fantasy, ghosts, and the power of written words, this metaphysical novel examines the questionable value of timekeeping while thoroughly exploring unconditional love, self-imposed constraints, and deaths of one''s body and soul." -- Library Journal (starred review), "It is with unabashed joy that I am here to report: The City and Its Uncertain Walls , Murakami''s first novel in six years, is also one of his best. It feels at once sweeping and intimate, grand and tender, quiet and charged with feeling. The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a paean to books, reading, and libraries, an investigation into the relationship between romance and realism, and a timely fable about how relationships, societies, and communities both protect themselves against threats and foster beauty and truth." --Priscilla Gilman, Boston Globe "Spellbinding. . . . [An] oddly irresistible fable. . . . [The] eerie landscape of snows, forests and torrents is beautifully evoked as Mr. Murakami the seasoned storyteller of loss, loneliness and passing time takes charge. The action dawdles, then leaps, with a trademark blend of soap opera and sublimity. In deadpan, slow-burn, quietly hypnotic prose, delicately conveyed in Mr. Gabriel''s translation, our narrator settles into a becalmed life as guardian of the small-town library stacks. . . . Mr. Murakami understands these parallel territories of the mind not simply as escapism but as a precious refuge for those who ''had never put down roots in this world.'' He conjures the charm, and also the harm, of all-consuming obsessions. In the perfect walled town, no cats prowl, because ''nothing unneeded'' can exist there." --Boyd Tonkin, The Wall Street Journal " [Murakami''s] imagination is one of a kind, and his blend of pop culture, postmodernism and Japanese mythology is a wholly unique contribution to literature." --Jonathan Russell Clark, The Washington Post "Mysterious, illusive... there is something about the way [Murakami] writes that is so captivating." --Rumaan Alam, The Today Show " Ghostbustlingly alive. I was moved by [Murakami''s] portrait of impossible loss, how it can carve within us a Stygian underworld to which we are always being summoned. I even interpreted Murakami''s stinting on fictional norms as an attempt to more directly represent the self-exiling quality of melancholic grief." --Junot Diaz, New York Times "As we stare down social and ecological disasters, we need new ways to talk about what is real. Murakami writes most transparently about our contemporary moment toward the end of his latest novel in a reflection on the ''pandemic of the soul." --Renee Sims, Los Angeles Times "Astonishing, puzzling, and hallucinatory as only Murakami can be, and one of his most satisfying tales." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "The ingenuity of Murakami''s tale lies in the resonances he establishes between the two worlds...It''s an astonishing achievement." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Murakami fans, of course, will appreciate his iconic tropes--lost love, loneliness, missing women, and other realities--along with his comforting leitmotifs, namely cats, whiskey, jazz and classical music, and beloved books. In Murakami''s multiverses, as always, fascination dominates." -- Booklist (starred review) "In his trademark assured, graceful prose, Murakami has produced a work of tremendous ambition that on a sentence-by-sentence level feels like sitting down with a friend tohear them tell a very strange story. It''s another masterwork from one of our finest living novelists, and a must-read for Murakami devotees." -- Book Page (starred review) "At times a meditation on romance, reality vs. fantasy, ghosts, and the power of written words, this metaphysical novel examines the questionable value of timekeeping while thoroughly exploring unconditional love, self-imposed constraints, and deaths of one''s body and soul." -- Library Journal (starred review) "The spectacular dreamlike library at the center of this book is the kind of rare creation that explains why Murakami is a perennial favorite for oddsmakers trying to predict the Nobel Prize in literature." -- The Seattle Times, " Another beguilingly enigmatic tale from Murakami, complete with jazz, coffee, Borgesian twists, the Beatles, and other trademark motifs. . . .Murakami blends science fiction, gothic novel, noir mystery, horror (think Kiyoshi Kurosawa's film Pulse ), and coming-of-age story. . . . [An] elegant fable that deftly weaves ordinary reality--"something you have to choose by yourself, out of several possible alternatives"--with a shadow world that is at once eerie and beautiful. Astonishing, puzzling, and hallucinatory as only Murakami can be, and one of his most satisfying tales." -- Kirkus (starred review)
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
895.636
Synopsis
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - 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, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * 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
LC Classification Number
PL856.U673M3313 2024
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