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The City and Its Uncertain Walls

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The City and Its Uncertain Walls

Von: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator
Gesprochen von: Brian Nishii
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The breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from the internationally bestselling author of 1Q84.

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.

A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a parable for these strange times.

'It’s safe to say that there’s no one like Murakami' Literary Review

'No other author mixes domestic, fantastic and esoteric elements into such weirdly bewitching shades' Financial Times

'Murakami is a master storyteller and he knows how to keep us hooked' Sunday Times

© Haruki Murakami 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

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A masterpiece... quietly miraculous… The greatest books…are those which enable us to enter their worlds, just as Murakami’s narrator enters his mysterious libraries
No other author mixes domestic, fantastic and esoteric elements into such weirdly bewitching shades.
Regular readers will delight in the Easter eggs nested in an unsettling quest spun from Murakami’s long-patented dream logic
An enveloping magical realist story
A mysterious, magical book that reveals itself like a secret being said. Murakami offers a beguiling look at self and the lengths we go to for love
[Murakami’s] imagination is one of a kind, and his blend of pop culture, postmodernism and Japanese mythology is a wholly unique contribution to literature
Murakami blends the whimsical and the threatening with the skill of that other pre-eminent Japanese visionary, Hayao Miyazaki (A.K. Blakemore)
Spellbinding...oddly irresistible
A sublime meditation on time, age and love
One of his best. It feels at once sweeping and intimate, grand and tender, quiet and charged with feeling
Alle Sterne
Am relevantesten
The performance is too theatrical and sometimes doe not fit the pensative text. Sometimes it contrdicts as the text says "flat tone" but we hear very ariculated reading. It it also far too slow.

The translation doesn't take in account the I perspective of japanese language neither the nararion does.

The concept of hearth and mind stamming from far east culture is not translated correctly. using "brain" instead of mind is no go.

Mediocre translation and performance

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A mature Murakami takes us on a luxuriously slow-paced journey through two seemingly different worlds. There is time for wonderment and time for development - after all, time has no significance in one of those worlds.
Condensed and intimate, with little more than 4 main characters, the first-person narrative is brought to life by the more than excellent narrator. I have never heard a better one - and his Japanese background gives the story an unequaled authentic colouring. It‘s wonderful to hear the names of people and places pronounced perfectly as a Japanese would.
This was a unique experience!

What is our real self?

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