A month has passed since the release of Haruki Murakami’s new novel “The City and Its Uncertain Walls”, and various book reviews have been written. Among those, the best one is written by Banana Yoshimoto in the June issue of Shincho Magazine, entitled “From the Shadow of Banana Yoshimoto to Haruki Murakami san”. It stands […]
Let me conclude first. Haruki Murakami’s new novel, The City and Its Uncertain Walls, is brilliant. It is written by an old maestro who reconstructs the unforgettable memories of his youth, incorporating them into a world he has spent a lifetime creating. Benign obsessions and lyrical sentiments unfold against a backdrop of surreal scenes. And […]
The City and Its Uncertain Walls, out tomorrow, features illustrations by Jun Tada. Jun Tada is an illustrator and printmaker who has provided artwork for books by many authors, including the Japanese translations of Ferdinand von Schirach and Paul Auster, as well as being noted for his feline illustrations. Tada’s illustrations depict the faint light […]
Today, a message from Haruki Murakami was released regarding his new novel, the City and Its Uncertain Walls, to be released on April 13. I began writing this novel in early March 2020, when Covid began to rage in Japan, and it took me almost three years to complete it. During that time, I could […]
On 1 March 2023, the title of Haruki Murakami’s new novel ‘The City and Its Uncertain Walls’, to be published on 13 April, was announced in Japan. Posters notifying the new book are appearing in Tokyo bookstores, and Amazon, which had been accepting pre-orders even before the title was announced, quickly updated its page. Everyone […]
Announced today, Haruki Murakami’s new novel will be released in Japan on 13 April 2023. The Release The publisher, Shinchosha, delivered a concise release on 1 February 2023 at 00:00 (JST). “On 13 April 2023, Shinchosha will publish Haruki Murakami’s new novel (1200 manuscript pages). It will be the first entirely new piece published in […]
On 15 December 2022, a new Murakami book, ‘More, My Good Old Classical Records’ was published in Japan. It is an essay book on his classical music record collection and a sequel to “My Good Old Classical Records,” published last year. In the preface, Murakami wrote that this book was neither a guidebook nor an […]
In October 2022, Laura Wilson published a book, “The Writers: Portraits”, which includes photographs of 38 authors from around the world, including Haruki Murakami, According to Murakami’s recent interview, he went to Hawaii in February this year for the first time after the pandemic. He stayed there for three-four weeks (and listened to the news […]
Murakami was born on 12 January 1949 and today is his 73rd birthday. Coincidentally, the birthday of Jack London (12 January 1876 – 22 November 1916) and Murakami are the same (London was born 73 years before Murakami), and Murakami once created a “Jack London Club” on the Internet for people with the same birthday […]
In Scheherazade, the story of a man and a woman placed in an unusual state of confinement, the keywords embedded by Murakami allow us to read what lies behind this open-ended story.