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*PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI\u0092S NEW NOVEL,\u00a0<\/span>THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS<\/span>, NOW*<\/span><\/p>\n

‘A masterly novel’\u00a0<\/span>New York Times<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Such is the exquisite, gossamer construction of Murakami’s writing that everything he chooses to describe trembles with symbolic possibility’\u00a0<\/span>Guardian<\/span><\/p>\n

Read the haunting love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar.<\/span><\/p>\n

When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire – to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.<\/p>\n

‘Evocative, entertaining, sexy and funny; but then Murakami is one of the best writers around’\u00a0<\/span>Time Out<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Poignant, romantic and hopeless, it beautifully encapsulates the heartbreak and loss of faith’\u00a0<\/span>Sunday Times<\/span><\/p>\n

‘This book is undeniably hip, full of student uprisings, free love, booze and 1960s pop, it’s also genuinely emotionally engaging, and describes the highs of adolescence as well as the lows’\u00a0<\/span>Independent on Sunday<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

*PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI\u0092S NEW NOVEL,\u00a0THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* ‘A masterly novel’\u00a0New York Times ‘Such is the exquisite, gossamer construction of Murakami’s writing that everything he chooses to describe trembles with symbolic possibility’\u00a0Guardian Read the haunting love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar. When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire – to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past. ‘Evocative, entertaining, sexy and funny; but then Murakami is one of the best writers around’\u00a0Time Out ‘Poignant, romantic and hopeless, it beautifully encapsulates the heartbreak and loss of faith’\u00a0Sunday Times ‘This book is undeniably hip, full of student uprisings, free love, booze and 1960s pop, it’s also genuinely emotionally engaging, and describes the highs of adolescence as well as the lows’\u00a0Independent on Sunday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[59],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2359","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-books","first","instock","sale","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/2359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}