NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A REAL SIMPLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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 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.…
"Speaking of literary buzz, many bookshops are opening at midnight to celebrate the launch of is Haruki Murakami’s The City and its Uncertain Walls , translated by Philip Gabriel, on November 19. It’s his first new novel in six years. Expect “DJs spinning jazz records and spaghetti bars,” says Publisher’s Weekly . “And in New York City, Christina Tosi, CEO of the Brooklyn-based bakery Milk Bar, is creating Murakami-themed muffins—Murakuffins—for local release parties.” It’s about a teenage boy whose girlfriend mysteriously disappears. He never gets over it, and finally finds her working in a dream library in a shadowy parallel world. But she doesn’t remember him at all. The publisher describes it as: “a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them [and] a parable for these strange times.” All that is to say: expect magical realism, dream logic, and plenty of Easter Egg surprises for longtime Murakami fans."
