02271cam a2200373 i 4500 1606708668 TxAuBib 20241216120000.0 241204s2024||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9798217013975 PAP 37.00 (OCoLC)1464651829 TxAuBib rda Murakami, Haruki, 1949-, author. Machi to sono futashika na kabe English. The city and its uncertain walls [LARGE PRINT] / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. First large print edition. New York, N.Y. : Random House Large Print, [2024] 687 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Translation of: Machi to sono futashika na kabe. "We begin with a nameless young couple: a boy and a girl, teenagers in love. One day, she disappears . . . and her absence haunts him for the rest of his life. Thus begins a search for this lost love that takes the man into middle age and on a journey between the real world and an other world – a mysterious, perhaps imaginary, walled town where unicorns roam, where a Gatekeeper determines who can enter and who must remain behind, and where shadows become untethered from their selves. Listening to his own dreams and premonitions, the man leaves his life in Tokyo behind and ventures to a small mountain town, where he becomes the head librarian, only to learn the mysterious circumstances surrounding the gentleman who had the job before him. As the seasons pass and the man grows more uncertain about the porous boundaries between these two worlds, he meets a strange young boy who helps him to see what he’s been missing all along.". 20241216. First loves Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Imaginary places Fiction. Dreams Fiction. Librarians Fiction. Magic realist fiction. Psychological fiction. Large print books. Gabriel, Philip, 1953-, translator.