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Haruki Murakami
*PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI’S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW*A mystery story about love, the cosmos and other fictional universes.Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. Miu is glamorous and successful. Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel.Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life: what is sexual desire, and should she ever tell Miu how she feels for her? Meanwhile K wonders whether he should confess his own unrequited love for Sumire.Then, a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek island: Sumire has mysteriously vanished...'Confirms Murakami as a master of his craft... Out of this world' Time Out
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More Details:
Author
Haruki Murakami
Pages
240
Publisher
Random House
Published Date
2011-10-10
ISBN
1448104769 9781448104765
Ratings
Google: 5
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"A very slow read… but begins to be very captivating near the middle of the book and by the end of the book you are questioning everything you just read."
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Kasia
"A surreal delight!"
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tinyhouse bigreads
"2★"
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Belana Romero
"Kafka on the Shore by Murakami is my favorite :) "
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Felix Stone
"Longing "
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Alexis McCarthy
"Another Murakami that did not disappoint and it was a short book. Did not know it would have magical realism."
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Berenice