Best-selling Japanese author Haruki Murakami spoke recently with Kyodo News about his latest novel "The City and Its Uncertain Walls" and his pursuit of expressing to his satisfaction motifs of the self, shadows and walls prevalent in his works.
The bestselling author spent three years working nonstop on his new novel, "The City and Its Uncertain Walls," which reworks the story of the same title from 1980.
Dozens of excited Haruki Murakami fans queued outside a bookstore in Tokyo on Thursday for the midnight release of the world-renowned author's first novel in six years. Copies of "The City and Its Uncertain Walls", so far only available in Japanese, were piled up on tables at the entrance to Kinokuniya store in central Shinjuku district.