Anyone who likes to read Murakami often will be taken aback by the first pages of his new novel “The City and its Uncertain Wall.” A city without a name, surrounded by high walls where people have no shadows? Where unicorns come and go? A librarian in a library without a single book?
Isn’t this one of the two plot lines of Murakami’s previous novel “Hard-boiled Wonderland”? And in fact: Not only the world described, but also the plot in the first part of the book almost completely corresponds to parts of the 1985 novel. Only this time, instead of a spy story, the framework narrative is a love story between the 17-year-old narrator and his 16-year-old girlfriend , both also nameless.
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