02250cam a2200385 i 4500 1988634357 TxAuBib 20250303120000.0 240528s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024017338 9780593801970 $35.00 0593801970 $35.00 TxAuBib rda eng jpn Murakami, Haruki, 1949-, author. Machi to sono futashika na kabe English. The city and its uncertain walls / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. First United States edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. 449 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Copyright page. "We begin with a nameless young couple: a boy and a girl, teenagers in love. One day, she disappears... and her absence haunts him for the rest of his life. Thus begins a search for this lost love that takes the man into middle age and on a journey between the real world and an other world--a mysterious, perhaps imaginary, walled town where unicorns roam, where a Gatekeeper determines who can enter and who must remain behind, and where shadows become untethered from their selves. Listening to his own dreams and premonitions, the man leaves his life in Tokyo behind and ventures to a small mountain town, where he becomes the head librarian, only to learn the mysterious circumstances surrounding the gentleman who had the job before him. As the seasons pass and the man grows more uncertain about the porous boundaries between these two worlds, he meets a strange young boy who helps him to see what he's been missing all along"-- Provided by publisher. 20250303. Librarians Fiction. Imaginary places Fiction. First loves Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Dreams Fiction. Fantasy fiction. fast Novels. fast Gabriel, Philip, 1953-, translator.