He started writing it in January 2020 and finished in December 2022, years that overlapped with multiple earthshattering events. And he did, “as if recovering it from the back of a drawer.” Then I thought, perhaps it’s time to write that story,” Murakami said. “Because of the coronavirus … I hardly went out and stayed home most of the time, and I tended to look at my inner self. It was three years ago when he felt the time had come to revisit the story that he thought was imperfect but had important elements, such as the wall and the shadow, and tackle them again based on what he was feeling on his skin. More than four decades later, as a seasoned and acclaimed novelist, he gave it a new life as “The City and Its Uncertain Walls.”
(Dec.TOKYO (AP) - Haruki Murakami wrote a story of a walled city when he was fresh off his debut.
This audio presentation perfectly captures the perplexing, nightmarish, and beguiling atmosphere of Murakami’s fiction, but whether that is enough to compensate for the loss of the print edition’s brilliant full-page designs by Chip Kidd is a decision the buyer will have to make. Eventually this is replaced by a mood of confusion and anxiety, as the librarian croakily describes the protagonist’s fate. The novella has its share of whimsy, which reader Heybourne conveys along with the student’s youthful naïveté.
Eventually he discovers the librarian’s sinister, seemingly inescapable plan. On this curious journey the unnamed student is confronted by a man wearing a sheepskin, a large furious green-eyed dog, and a young woman who silently provides him with delicious, freshly baked doughnuts. For no apparent reason, he is sent to the ancient, abrasive librarian, who leads him through an underground labyrinth of rooms and passages. In this short, dreamy fable by Japanese fantasist Murakami, a young student describes his arrival at an odd Tokyo library.
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