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A CIDADE E SUAS MURALHAS INCERTAS
O novo romance de Haruki Murakami é uma história de amor, memória e perda que atravessa décadas e dois o real e uma cidade misteriosa, cercada por muralhas. Um livro delicado e inquietante de um dos maiores autores da literatura contemporânea. Durante o verão, de tempos em tempos um jovem se encontra com a namorada que conheceu no concurso estudantil de redação. Em um dos momentos que passam juntos, ela lhe revela a existência de uma cidade enigmática. Quando ela desaparece subitamente, ele decide procurar a cidade misteriosa, convencido de que ela possa ter ido para lá. Assim começa uma busca que atravessa décadas e que o leva a um emprego em uma biblioteca remota, também cercada de segredos, e a uma jornada entre o mundo real e outro uma cidade sem sombras, onde unicórnios vagam e salgueiros crescem silenciosamente. É nesse lugar que ele a reencontra, mas ela não guarda qualquer lembrança da vida que dividiram. À medida que as estações passam e os limites entre os dois mundos se tornam cada vez mais incertos, o homem precisa então decidir o que está disposto a perder. Em A cidade e suas muralhas incertas, Haruki Murakami retoma e transforma uma ideia que o acompanha desde os anos 1980 para construir um de seus romances mais pessoais. Escrito décadas depois de sua concepção inicial, este romance dialoga diretamente com O Fim do Mundo e o impiedoso País das Maravilhas e ocupa um lugar especial na trajetória do autor. Ao mesmo tempo íntimo e expansivo, é um livro que confirma a força e a permanência de um dos grandes nomes da literatura contemporânea.
504 pages, Paperback
Published June 9, 2026
About the author
Haruki Murakami
629 books136k followersHaruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.
Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the Wind Sing (1979) after working as the owner of a small jazz bar for seven years. His notable works include the novels Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95), Kafka on the Shore (2002) and 1Q84 (2009–10); the last was ranked as the best work of Japan's Heisei era (1989–2019) by the national newspaper Asahi Shimbun's survey of literary experts. His work spans genres including science fiction, fantasy, and crime fiction, and has become known for his use of magical realist elements. His official website cites Raymond Chandler, Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan as key inspirations to his work, while Murakami himself has named Kazuo Ishiguro, Cormac McCarthy and Dag Solstad as his favourite currently active writers. Murakami has also published five short story collections, including First Person Singular (2020), and non-fiction works including Underground (1997), an oral history of the Tokyo subway sarin attack, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007), a memoir about his experience as a long distance runner.
His fiction has polarized literary critics and the reading public. He has sometimes been criticised by Japan's literary establishment as un-Japanese, leading to Murakami's recalling that he was a "black sheep in the Japanese literary world". Meanwhile, Murakami has been described by Gary Fisketjon, the editor of Murakami's collection The Elephant Vanishes (1993), as a "truly extraordinary writer", while Steven Poole of The Guardian praised Murakami as "among the world's greatest living novelists" for his oeuvre.
Growing up in Ashiya, near Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel Hear the Wind Sing (1979) after working as the owner of a small jazz bar for seven years. His notable works include the novels Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994–95), Kafka on the Shore (2002) and 1Q84 (2009–10); the last was ranked as the best work of Japan's Heisei era (1989–2019) by the national newspaper Asahi Shimbun's survey of literary experts. His work spans genres including science fiction, fantasy, and crime fiction, and has become known for his use of magical realist elements. His official website cites Raymond Chandler, Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan as key inspirations to his work, while Murakami himself has named Kazuo Ishiguro, Cormac McCarthy and Dag Solstad as his favourite currently active writers. Murakami has also published five short story collections, including First Person Singular (2020), and non-fiction works including Underground (1997), an oral history of the Tokyo subway sarin attack, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007), a memoir about his experience as a long distance runner.
His fiction has polarized literary critics and the reading public. He has sometimes been criticised by Japan's literary establishment as un-Japanese, leading to Murakami's recalling that he was a "black sheep in the Japanese literary world". Meanwhile, Murakami has been described by Gary Fisketjon, the editor of Murakami's collection The Elephant Vanishes (1993), as a "truly extraordinary writer", while Steven Poole of The Guardian praised Murakami as "among the world's greatest living novelists" for his oeuvre.
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