- Published: 19 November 2024
- ISBN: 9781787304475
- Imprint: Harvill Secker
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 464
- RRP: $49.99
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
- Published: 19 November 2024
- ISBN: 9781787304475
- Imprint: Harvill Secker
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 464
- RRP: $49.99
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
Murakami is a master storyteller and he knows how to keep us hooked
Sunday Times
Beguilingly enigmatic...Murakami blends science fiction, gothic novel, noir mystery, horror, and coming-of-age story... 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.
Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
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
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
An enveloping magical realist story
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A long, leisurely novel that jumps between here and there, fantasy and reality, and then and now. The result is very Murakamiesque
Herald
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 *****
A sublime meditation on time, age and love
Woman and Home
Murakami’s favourite motifs proliferate as the boundaries between the real and unreal, conscious and unconscious, blur
Daily Mail
Murakami…stays true to form with this novel… a speculative fantasy with a faintly creepy undertow
Mail on Sunday
One of his best. It feels at once sweeping and intimate, grand and tender, quiet and charged with feeling
Boston Globe
Spellbinding...oddly irresistible
Wall Street Journal
[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
Mysterious, illusive… there is something about the way [Murakami] writes that is so captivating
Rumaan Alam
Ghostbustlingly alive. I was moved by [Murakami’s] portrait of impossible loss, how it can carve within us a Stygian underworld to which we are always being summoned. I even interpreted Murakami’s stinting on fictional norms as an attempt to more directly represent the self-exiling quality of melancholic grief
Junot Diaz
As we stare down social and ecological disasters, we need new ways to talk about what is real. Murakami writes most transparently about our contemporary moment toward the end of his latest novel in a reflection on the ‘pandemic of the soul.
Los Angeles Times
Haruki Murakami invented 21st-century fiction
New York Times
More than any author since Kafka, Murakami appreciates the genuine strangeness of our real world
San Francisco Chronicle
Murakami blends the whimsical and the threatening with the skill of that other pre-eminent Japanese visionary, Hayao Miyazaki
A.K. Blakemore, Guardian
A towering achievement
Hot Press Magazine.
Inventive and magical…full of rich detail
Good Housekeeping (Book of the Month)
... Mixes love, mystery and magic. This is the kind of book you think about long after you finish reading Irish Independen
Irish Independent