{"product_id":"the-city-and-its-uncertain-wallsisbn-9798217013976","title":"The City and Its Uncertain Walls","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eNorwegian Wood\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for our peculiar times.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eHaruki Murakami invented 21st-century fiction.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times • \"\u003c\/i\u003eMore than any author since Kafka, Murakami appreciates the genuine strangeness of our real world.\"\u003ci\u003e —San Francisco Chronicle • \"\u003c\/i\u003eMurakami is masterful.\u003ci\u003e\" —Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWe 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThus begins a search for this lost love that takes the man into middle age and on a journey between the real world and an other world – a mysterious, perhaps imaginary, walled town where unicorns roam, where a Gatekeeper determines who can enter and who must remain behind, and where shadows become untethered from their selves. Listening to his own dreams and premonitions, the man leaves his life in Tokyo behind and ventures to a small mountain town, where he becomes the head librarian, only to learn the mysterious circumstances surrounding the gentleman who had the job before him. As the seasons pass and the man grows more uncertain about the porous boundaries between these two worlds, he meets a strange young boy who helps him to see what he’s been missing all along.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe City and Its Uncertain Walls\u003c\/i\u003e is a singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature’s most important writers.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"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 \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e★ \u003c\/b\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003eAnother 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 \u003ci\u003ePulse\u003c\/i\u003e), 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.\"\u003cb\u003e -- \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003eHARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and one of the most recent of his many international honors is the Cino Del Duca World Prize, whose previous recipients include Jorge Luis Borges, Ismail Kadare, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Joyce Carol Oates.","brand":"Random House Large Print","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304337625317,"sku":"NP9798217013976","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9798217013975.jpg?v=1730757010","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-city-and-its-uncertain-wallsisbn-9798217013976","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}