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The City and Its Uncertain Walls - Signed & Numbered Deluxe Edition

A love story and quest through a dreamlike library

Haruki Murakami author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:19th Nov '24

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The City and Its Uncertain Walls - Signed & Numbered Deluxe Edition cover

A young man's search for his missing girlfriend leads him to a dream library in a mysterious city in The City and Its Uncertain Walls.

This very limited, signed and numbered deluxe edition of Murakami’s new novel will be swiss-bound and presented in a Perspex case with an egg-shaped cut out. It will also include a quarter-bound, sewn notebook decorated with egg shapes that connect to the dream library which features in the novel.

When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he sets his heart on finding the imaginary city where her true self lives. His search will lead him to take a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own. When he finally makes it to the walled city, a shadowless place of horned beasts and willow trees, he finds his beloved working in a different library – a dream library.But she has no memory of their life together in the other world and, as the lines between reality and fantasy start to blur, he must decide what he’s 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. PRAISE FOR HARUKI MURAKAMI'The world's most popular cult novelist' Guardian 'Wild and thrilling.. . Murakami is a master storyteller and he knows how to keep us hooked' Sunday Times'Totally gripping' Daily Express'It’s safe to say that there’s no one like Murakami' Literary Review'No other author mixes domestic, fantastic and esoteric elements into such weirdly bewitching shades' Financial Times

ISBN: 9781787304949

Dimensions: 420mm x 270mm x 145mm

Weight: 2800g