Author Julie Gilbert Discusses the Writing of Her New Book ‘Giant Love’
Julie Gilbert Today, we delve into the enduring relevance of the themes explored by Pulitzer Prize -winning author Edna Ferber
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Fiction Haruki Murakami’s New Novel Doesn’t Feel All That New “The City and Its Uncertain Walls” features all the author’s signature elements — and his singular voice — in a story he has told before. A color illustration of two figures meeting over a low brick wall. They are embracing each other and their faces become one in the center. Fiction Haruki Murakami’s New Novel Doesn’t Feel All That New “The City and Its Uncertain Walls” features all the author’s signature elements — and his singular voice — in a story he has told before. Credit…Balint Zsako Junot Díaz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a professor at M.I.T. Nov. 18, 2024 When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. , by Haruki Murakami. Translated by Philip Gabriel. When we first meet the nameless narrator of Haruki Murakami’s eerie new novel, “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” he is a high school loner whose only friend is his cat. A chance meeting at a school awards ceremony brings him into the orbit of an equally isolated eccentric 16-year-old who can’t always distinguish her dreams from real life. These two misfits strike up an ambiguous relationship, writing letters, talking endlessly, making out. The girl recounts her fantastic dreams, some of them erotic, and in no time at all our narrator falls calamitously in love: “I was so taken by you, I thought of nothing else when awake. You haunted my dreams, as well.” The boy longs for his maybe-girlfriend, in the biblical way, and at first his inamorata seems 100 percent down. “I want to be yours,” she confesses. “Completely totally yours … in every way there is. Yours from top to bottom. I want to be one with you. I mean it.” But then, in a wild addendum, the girl requests that they take it slow because she isn’t her real self; the person in front of the narrator is “only a stand-in,” a “wandering shadow.” “My real self — the real me — is in a town far away, living a […]
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Julie Gilbert Today, we delve into the enduring relevance of the themes explored by Pulitzer Prize -winning author Edna Ferber
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