Haruki Murakami is one of the most popular Japanese authors today. With his novels Norwegian Wood and Kafka on the Shore, he has reached a large audience worldwide. Now, the BookTok and Bookstagram communities are excitedly discussing a new limited edition of his novel The City and Its Uncertain Walls (2023), which will be released on November 19th, 2024. What makes the book special is its exclusive cover. The so-called “lenticular print” causes the cover’s design to change depending on the angle from which you view it. You can see both versions of the cover in the picture below:
TikToker Jack Edwards, who is known for his content about books and literature, has already received one copy and has shared his excitement in this video:
This limited edition of his book can be preordered on Amazon and at other bookstores, starting at £22.00/23.99€.
You can purchase your own copy through the following links:
What is the books about?
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 our peculiar times. 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. The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature’s most important writers.
(Taken from Goodreads)
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