城市及其不确定的墙（村上春树） The City and Its Uncertain Walls:A Novel 小城与不确定性的墙

基本信息

出版社：Knopf (2024年 11月 19日)

语言：英语

精装：464页

ISBN-10：0593801970

ISBN-13：978-0593801970

商品重量：731 g

尺寸：15.56 x 2.94 x 23.18 cm

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书籍简介

★村上春树时隔6年新长篇发行

★或与被称为“幽灵般的作品”的同名小说有关

★属于村上的shou部具有完整情节的小说

☆或与曾发表于1980年9月，既没有成为单行本，也未收录到任何文集中，被读者称为“幽灵般的作品”的村上同名中篇小说存在关联

★无论是《挪威的森林》的原型短篇《萤》，还是《奇鸟行状录》的原型《拧发条鸟与星期二的女人们》，都曾被收录进《村上春树全作品集1979~1989》中，《城市及其不确定的墙》却未被收录

☆村上曾多次在采访中表示这是一部“失败之作”，本不应该写的，由于风格与前作迥异，主题晦涩难懂，村上认为自己还没有驾驭它的能力

★《且听风吟》和《1973年的弹子球》中都没有可被称为“故事”的东西，这是属于村上的shou部具有完整情节的小说

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我必须去那座城市，不管发生什么——深藏书库中的“旧梦”，像被唤醒一样，被封印的“故事”开始深沉地、悄悄地动起来了。一个纯正的村上世界，将会震撼灵魂。

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.

"Haruki Murakami invented 21st-century fiction." --The New York Times - "More than any author since Kafka, Murakami appreciates the genuine strangeness of our real world." --San Francisco Chronicle - "Murakami is masterful." --Los Angeles 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.

"Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change/movement. Isn't this the quintessential core of what stories are all about?" --Haruki Murakami, from the afterword

作者简介

日本作家，生于1949年。29岁开始写作，处女作《且听风吟》获日本群像新人奖。

1987年出版《挪威的森林》。2009年出版《1Q84》，被誉为“新千年日本文学的里程碑”，获每日出版文化奖、新风奖。写作之余，热衷翻译英语文学、跑步、爵士乐等。

HARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and one of the most recent of his many international honors is the Cino Del Duca World Prize, whose previous recipients include Jorge Luis Borges, Ismail Kadare, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Joyce Carol Oates.