The City and Its Uncertain Walls

The City and Its Uncertain Walls is Haruki Murakami's first novel in six years, a dreamlike story of love, memory and the thin line between the real world and an imagined one.

When the narrator was seventeen, the girl he loved described a strange walled city where her true self lived. Then she disappeared from his life without a word. Decades later, still haunted by her, he finds his way into that very city, a quiet place surrounded by high walls, where he works in a library reading old dreams. Yet the girl he finds there has no memory of their time together. Back in the ordinary world, his search leads him to a small mountain town and a remote library with secrets of its own.

As the boundaries between reality and fantasy begin to dissolve, he has to decide what he is prepared to give up, and which version of himself is the real one.

Hailed by critics as bewitching and spellbinding, this is a gentle, hypnotic book about first love, loss and the lives we carry inside us. It is also a love letter to books and to the libraries that keep them, which makes it a perfect read for any bookshop browser. Ideal for Murakami fans and newcomers alike, translated by Philip Gabriel.

Available at Kitabi Chai Café & Book Store, Pune, and online with delivery across India.