Thomas Caffrey

Nov 19, 2024 | rte.ie | Thomas Caffrey |Nicolas Cage

Analysis: As a new Murakami book is published, a look at the Japanese author's back pagesIn bookstores across Ireland, the new Murakami novel, The City and Its Uncertain Walls, has finally arrived. It's Murakami's first novel since 2018’s Killing Commendatore, following the publication of essay collection Novelist as a Vocation in 2022 and short story collection First Person Singular in 2021. The new novel – a 448-page mystery – is adorned with just the author's surname in bold, capital letters.