The City and Its Uncertain Walls

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The breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from the internationally bestselling author of 1Q84. The signed and numbered edition of Haruki Murakami's THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS is limited to exactly 80 copies. The overall design is by Suzanne Dean. The illustration is by the artist and illustrator Nomoco. Inspired by organic movement in nature and sound, Nomoco creates images and animation using predominantly ink and printmaking. The calligraphy is by Keiko Shimoda. The book will be swiss-bound and presented in a Perspex case with an egg-shaped cut out. It will also include a quarter-bound, sewn notebook decorated with egg shapes that connect to the dream library which features in the novel.

Author Bio

Haruki Murakami (Author) In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers. Philip Gabriel (Translator) Philip Gabriel is the author of Mad Wives and Island Dreams- Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature and Spirit Matters- The Transcendent in Modern Japanese Literature and has translated many novels and short stories by the writer Haruki Murakami and other modern writers. He is recipient of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature (2001) for his translation of Senji Kuroi's Life in the Cul-de-Sac, and the 2006 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for his translation of Murakami's Kafka on the Shore.