A new novel by legendary Japanese author Haruki Murakami will hit bookstore shelves in the U.S. later this year.
Knopf will publish Murakami’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls, translated by Philip Gabriel, in the fall. The novel was originally published in Japan in 2023.
Murakami is the world’s best known Japanese author, and his books routinely become bestsellers around the globe. He made his literary debut in 1979 with the novel Hear the Wind Sing and went on to write many more books, including Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Norwegian Wood, and 1Q84.
In The City and Its Uncertain Walls, Knopf says, takes place in a city that Murakami briefly wrote about in Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.
“A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for these strange post-pandemic times, The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature’s most important writers,” the press says.
Knopf says it will celebrate publication of the novel with a series of midnight release parties at bookstores across the nation.
The City and Its Uncertain Walls is slated for publication in the U.S. on Nov. 19.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
