Magical Realism

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

by Philip Gabriel

Murakami returns to a dreamlike world first imagined in his youth: a walled town where unicorns roam and shadows are separated from their selves, and the tangled reality of a man who once loved a girl who could read dreams. Decades later, as a lonely librarian in a mountain town, he finds the boundaries between worlds growing uncertain. A career-spanning meditation on memory, storytelling, and the selves we leave behind.

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