Chiaroscuro and mystery reign in The city with uncertain walls, Pavé in which the Japanese author develops and completes a text published over 40 years ago and which remained in him “like a small edge stuck in the throat”. Aged today, 75 years old, Murakami brings together the prosaic daily life and the dreamlike world with an indisputable mastery; He gives the floor to ghosts and crystallizes the feeling of love. Result: a novel with an unusual atmosphere imbued with an extreme sense of detail.