{"product_id":"the-city-and-its-uncertain-walls-haruki-murakami","title":"The City and Its Uncertain Walls (Haruki Murakami)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER \u003ci\u003e  A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR   A REAL SIMPLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR  \u003c\/i\u003e From the 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\u003eWhen a young man s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he is heartbroken   and determined to find the imaginary town where he suspects she has taken up residence. Thus begins a lifelong search that takes the man into middle age, to a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own, and on a journey between the real world and this otherworld: a shadowless city where unicorns roam and willow trees grow. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere he finds his beloved working in a different library   a dream library. But she has no memory of their life together and, as the seasons pass and the man grows more uncertain about the porous boundaries between these two worlds, he must decide what he is willing to lose. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, \u003ci\u003eThe City and Its Uncertain Walls\u003c\/i\u003e is a parable for these strange times  and 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\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Englisch, 464 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63407537946973,"sku":"K097203885","price":25.3,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/220407-9720388500001A.jpg?v=1770950172","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-city-and-its-uncertain-walls-haruki-murakami","provider":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}