'The City and its Unsafe Wall' is written by Haruki Murakami, one of Japan's greatest modern writers, who is behind many other well-known titles. With this novel, Murakami presents another fascinating tale from his surreal and thought-provoking literary world. The Danish version is translated by Mette Holm.

The publisher's description of the book:

"At the end of the world lies the city with the insecure walls, which you can only enter if you leave your shadow outside. The nameless narrator has fallen in love with a 17-year-old woman whose true self lives in this city and comes upon its mysterious library When the narrator finally finds the girl, she no longer recognizes him.

After terrible obstacles, the narrator manages to find his way out of this world behind the wall. He moves to Tokyo, works in a bookstore and has a number of girlfriends. The memory of the girl and the city behind the wall haunts him, and he quits and takes a job at an old library in the countryside of Fukushima. Here reality begins to waver, and the narrator must ask himself what binds him to this world.

A melancholic and philosophical novel about lost love, about finding oneself as an adult and about the possibility of overcoming walls."