The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami Puzzles acclaimed illustrator of the Wildwood

acclaimed illustrator of the Wildwood series and artist for the indie band the Decemberists

a cipher leaving destruction in her wake

The guy beside her at the bar

it means waiting

which are tinged by addiction

The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami Puzzles acclaimed illustrator of the WildwoodWe begin with a nameless young couple: a boy and a girl, teenagers in love. One day, she disappears . . . and her absence haunts him for the rest of his life. Thus begins a search for this lost love that takes the man into middle age and on a journey between the real world and an other world a mysterious, perhaps imaginary, walled town where unicorns roam, where a Gatekeeper determines who can enter and who must remain behind, and where shadows become