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Hélène Morita

    The City and Its Uncertain Walls
    Les Fruits du Gingko
    • The City and Its Uncertain Walls

      • 464 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      STEP INTO THE CITY When a young man's girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he sets his heart on finding the imaginary city where her true self lives. His search will lead him to take a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own. When he finally makes it to the walled city, a shadowless place of horned beasts and willow trees, he finds his beloved working in a different library - a dream library. But she has no memory of their life together in the other world and, as the lines between reality and fantasy start to blur, he must decide what he's willing to lose. A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a parable for these strange times. PRAISE FOR HARUKI MURAKAMI 'The world's most popular cult novelist' Guardian 'Wild and thrilling. . . Murakami is a master storyteller and he knows how to keep us hooked' Sunday Times 'Totally gripping' Daily Express 'It's safe to say that there's no one like Murakami' Literary Review 'No other author mixes domestic, fantastic and esoteric elements into such weirdly bewitching shades' Financial Times

      The City and Its Uncertain Walls2024
      3.7
    • Les Fruits du Gingko

      Nouvelles

      • 210 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Les Trois Diplômés de l'Ecole du Blaireau, La Biographie de Nénémou Pène-nène-nène-nène-nène, La Fourrure du rat-des-neiges, Le Jeune Echo, L'Office des chats, Tanéli avait vraiment l'impression d'avoir mâché toute la journée... Les seuls titres de Miyazawa sont de succulentes et déroutantes invitations à la lecture. Ce recueil réunit onze textes du grand auteur japonais. Avec l'humour qu'on lui connaît désormais, jouant sans cesse entre les registres burlesque, poétique et mystique, Miyazawa fait se mêler le monde des hommes et celui des animaux ou des esprits. Une variété et une fraîcheur inépuisables...

      Les Fruits du Gingko2006
      3.5