2024-01-12 18:19:00
Haruki Murakami’s novel “The City and Its Precarious Walls” (German – “Die Stadt und ihre ungewisse Mauer”) was published in publishing house Dumont on Friday, January 12, just in time for the anniversary of the famous author. It contains him, her, their endless love and a mysterious city. The boundaries between the real and fantasy worlds are blurred, and the main characters move between dreams and ordinary life. In order to find his beloved again, who lives in a city with an insurmountable wall, the hero has to part with his own shadow. But later he will return to the ordinary world again. However, you won’t be able to forget your beloved even at the end of the world.
The novel was written during the lockdown. In early March 2020, when the coronavirus began to rage in Japan, Murakami wrote it day after day, almost without leaving the house, until he finished it. In the writer’s homeland, the book was published in the spring of 2023.
Cover of the new novelPhoto: Dumont
The 600-page work is based on a short story written by the author back in 1980 and published in the magazine. As Murakami himself says, this story never let him go – like a small bone in his throat, which doesn’t seem to bother him much, but also doesn’t let him forget about himself. He always wanted to return to this story and create something more out of it.
Haruki Murakamiya’s books have been translated into more than 50 languages and have become bestsellers both in Japan and abroad. Acclaim from critics and readers brought him many awards. His most famous works are “Sheep Hunt”, “Norwegian Wood”, “The Wind-Up Bird Time.news”, “Kafka on the Beach”, “1Q84”, “Men Without Women”. Murakami’s books are mostly surreal and melancholic, with themes of loneliness and alienation woven into their plots. Fans of his work hope that this amazing Japanese writer will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. For many years now his name has been among the favorites.
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