The City and Its Uncertain Walls By Haruki Murakami

From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore and *1Q84* comes a mesmerizing new novel that pulls readers into a labyrinth of memory, dreams, and parallel worlds. In a lonely town encircled by a high, impenetrable wall, a young man tends the old library and archives, charged with caring for the secrets held in the shadowy, forgotten books. But when a cryptic message arrives from the "Other Side" of the wall, he is drawn into a quest that will blur the lines between past and present, reality and story, self and other. With the hypnotic prose and surreal imagination that have made him a literary icon, Haruki Murakami crafts a profound exploration of isolation, longing, and the intangible walls we build within ourselves and our cities. This long-awaited novel is a haunting, beautiful addition to his celebrated body of work.