The City And Its Uncertain Walls (Paperback, Haruki Murakami)

A 'cosy' masterpiece with agony between its lines… [The City and Its Uncertain Walls is] quietly miraculous… The greatest books…are those which enable us to enter their worlds, just as Murakami’s narrator enters his mysterious libraries ― Telegraph ***** No other author mixes domestic, fantastic and esoteric elements into such weirdly bewitching shades. ― Financial Times Regular readers will delight in the Easter eggs nested in an unsettling quest spun from Murakami’s long-patented dream logic ― Observer, Best Novels Autumn 2024 An enveloping magical realist story ― i A mysterious, magical book that reveals itself like a secret being said. Murakami offers a beguiling look at self and the lengths we go to for love ― Hanako Footman, author of MONGREL [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 ― Washington Post Murakami blends the whimsical and the threatening with the skill of that other pre-eminent Japanese visionary, Hayao Miyazaki -- A.K. Blakemore ― Guardian Spellbinding...oddly irresistible ― Wall Street Journal A sublime meditation on time, age and love ― Woman and Home One of his best. It feels at once sweeping and intimate, grand and tender, quiet and charged with feeling ― Boston Globe