The city and its uncertain walls

R$ 101,90

Sinopse

What will you find in the city?READERS LOVE THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS‘Felt like stepping into a dream’‘I really loved getting lost in this book’‘Everyone on this planet should read Murakami at least once in their lifetime’‘Riveting and irresistible’‘It’s magical, it’s wise . . . deeply comforting’A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, a breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from the Sunday Times bestseller.When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he sets his heart on finding the imaginary city where her true self lives. His search will lead him to take a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own.When he finally makes it to the walled city, a shadowless place of horned beasts and willow trees, he finds his beloved working in a different library – a dream library. But she has no memory of their life together in the other world and, as the lines between reality and fantasy start to blur, he must decide what he’s willing to lose.PRAISE FOR THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS‘Quietly miraculous’ Telegraph‘Bewitching’ Financial Times‘Enveloping’ Independent

Participantes

Autor: Haruki Murakami

Autor

HARUKI MURAKAMI

Haruki Murakami nasceu em Kyoto, no Japão, em janeiro de 1949. Cresceu em Kobe e se graduou na Universidade Waseda, em Tóquio. Viveu por quatro anos nos Estados Unidos, onde deu aulas em Princeton, e regressou ao país natal em 1995. É considerado um dos autores mais importantes da atual literatura japonesa. Sua obra foi traduzida para mais de quarenta idiomas e recebeu importantes prêmios, como o Yomiuri — que já foi concedido a autores como Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe e Kobo Abe — e o Franz Kafka Prize. O escritor vive atualmente nas proximidades de Tóquio. Publicou o relato Do que eu falo quando eu falo de corrida e os romances Minha querida Sputnik, Norwegian Wood, Kafka à beira-mar e Após o anoitecer.