{"product_id":"the-city-and-its-uncertain-walls-large-print-9798217013975b","title":"The City and Its Uncertain Walls (Large Print)","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA REAL SIMPLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eFrom the author of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eNorwegian Wood\u003c\/span\u003e and \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World \u003c\/span\u003ecomes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for our peculiar times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eWhen a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he is heartbroken – and determined to find the imaginary town where he suspects she has taken up residence. Thus begins a lifelong search that takes the man into middle age, to a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own, and on a journey between the real world and this otherworld: a shadowless city where unicorns roam and willow trees grow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere he finds his beloved working in a different library – a dream library. But she has no memory of their life together and, as the seasons pass and the man grows more uncertain about the porous boundaries between these two worlds, he must decide what he is willing to lose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe City and Its Uncertain Walls\u003c\/span\u003e is a parable for these strange times– and singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature’s most important writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\"Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change\/movement. Isn't this the quintessential core of what stories are all about?” —Haruki Murakami, from the afterword\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\"Haruki Murakami invented 21st-century fiction.\" —\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\"More than any author since Kafka, Murakami appreciates the genuine strangeness of our real world.\" —\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\"Murakami is masterful.\" —\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Random House Large Print","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42821592449104,"sku":"9798217013975B","price":15.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9798217013975-l.jpg?v=1785884315","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/the-city-and-its-uncertain-walls-large-print-9798217013975b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}