From the bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for these peculiar times.

“Haruki Murakami invented 21st-century fiction.”The New York Times “More than any author since Kafka, Murakami appreciates the genuine strangeness of our real world.” San Francisco Chronicle “Murakami is masterful.” Los Angeles Times

“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 to The City and Its Uncertain Walls

The long-awaited new novel from Haruki Murakami, his first in six years, revisits a Town his readers will remember, a place where a Dream Reader reviews dreams and where our shadows become untethered from our selves. A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for these strange post-pandemic times,The City and Its Uncertain Wallsis a singular and towering achievement by one of modern literatures most important writers.