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The City And Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami explores how an unnamed narrator attempts to escape a surreal town and into the "real world".

The City And Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami explores how an unnamed narrator attempts to escape a surreal town and into the "real world".

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The City And Its Uncertain Walls

By Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel
Fiction/Alfred A. Knopf/Hardcover/452 pages/$49.60

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