The City and Its Uncertain Walls | 誠品線上

街とその不確かな壁

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內容簡介 踏入城市當一名年輕男子的女友神秘消失後，他下定決心尋找那座她真實自我所在的虛幻之城。為了尋找答案，他接受了一份在偏遠圖書館的工作，而這座圖書館本身也隱藏著許多謎團。最終，他來到了這座圍牆環繞的城市，一個沒有影子的地方，充滿著有角的野獸與垂柳。在這裡，他發現心愛的女友正在另一座「夢之圖書館」工作。但她卻完全不記得兩人曾在另一個世界共同生活的記憶。隨著現實與幻想之間的界線逐漸模糊，他不得不面對一個選擇：究竟他願意失去什麼？這是一部關於愛情的故事、一場尋找自我的旅程、一首對書籍與圖書館的讚歌。《城與不確定的牆》是一個適合當今奇異時代的寓言。對村上春樹的讚譽《衛報》： 「全球最受歡迎的文化小說家」《星期日泰晤士報》： 「狂野而刺激……村上是一位講故事的大師，他深諳如何讓我們欲罷不能」《每日快報》： 「完全令人著迷」《文學評論》： 「可以肯定地說，沒有人能像村上這樣」《金融時報》： 「沒有其他作家能將日常生活、奇幻與神秘元素融合得如此詭異迷人」STEP INTO THE CITYWhen a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he sets his heart on finding the imaginary city where her true self lives. His search will lead him to take a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own.When he finally makes it to the walled city, a shadowless place of horned beasts and willow trees, he finds his beloved working in a different library – a dream library. But she has no memory of their life together in the other world and, as the lines between reality and fantasy start to blur, he must decide what he’s willing to lose.A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a parable for these strange times.PRAISE FOR HARUKI MURAKAMI'The world's most popular cult novelist' Guardian'Wild and thrilling. . . Murakami is a master storyteller and he knows how to keep us hooked' Sunday Times'Totally gripping' Daily Express'It’s safe to say that there’s no one like Murakami' Literary Review'No other author mixes domestic, fantastic and esoteric elements into such weirdly bewitching shades' Financial Times

各界推薦

各界推薦 ReviewA 'cosy' masterpiece with agony between its lines… [The City and Its Uncertain Walls is] quietly miraculous… The greatest books…are those which enable us to enter their worlds, just as Murakami’s narrator enters his mysterious libraries ― TelegraphNo other author mixes domestic, fantastic and esoteric elements into such weirdly bewitching shades. ― Financial TimesRegular readers will delight in the Easter eggs nested in an unsettling quest spun from Murakami’s long-patented dream logic ― ObserverA mysterious, magical book that reveals itself like a secret being said. Murakami offers a beguiling look at self and the lengths we go to for love ― Hanako Footman, author of MONGRELA sublime meditation on time, age and love ― Woman and Home

作者介紹

作者介紹 Haruki Murakami (Author)In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon.In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.Philip Gabriel (Translator)Philip Gabriel is the author of Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature and Spirit Matters: The Transcendent in Modern Japanese Literature and has translated many novels and short stories by the writer Haruki Murakami and other modern writers. He is recipient of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature (2001) for his translation of Senji Kuroi’s Life in the Cul-de-Sac, and the 2006 PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for his translation of Murakami's Kafka on the Shore.

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最佳賣點 : 村上春樹最新長篇小說《城與不確定的牆》英譯本，精美設計精裝收藏版