Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. (Credit: K. Kurigami)
The book features an enchanted cover, depicting a nocturnal and urban landscape, black and fuchsia. It heralds an immersion in a universe marked by duality and perpetual hesitation. Between the self and others, the city and the mountain, love and loss, dream and consciousness, speech and silence, meaning and mystery, body and soul. "The City with Uncertain Walls" (Belfond 2025) sets up a world that skillfully weaves the poetry of everyday life with a dreamlike world obeying its own laws. Haruki Murakami orchestrates more than 500 pages around a very simple narrative thread: A seventeen-year-old man is in love with a girl who invites him to discover his true self by going to a mysterious city where shadows do not exist. Then she disappears. The narrator spends the rest of his life trying to find traces of his lost...
The book features an enchanted cover, depicting a nocturnal and urban landscape, black and fuchsia. It heralds an immersion in a universe marked by duality and perpetual hesitation. Between the self and others, the city and the mountain, love and loss, dream and consciousness, speech and silence, meaning and mystery, body and soul. "The City with Uncertain Walls" (Belfond 2025) sets up a world that skillfully weaves the poetry of everyday life with a dreamlike world obeying its own laws. Haruki Murakami orchestrates more than 500 pages around a very simple narrative thread: A seventeen-year-old man is in love with a girl who invites him to discover his true self by going to a mysterious city where shadows do not exist. Then she disappears. The narrator spends the rest of his life trying to find traces of his lost...
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