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The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami review – a labour of love

Murakami revisits a hypnotic city of dreams, in material he’s been working on for four decadesThe elegiac quality of Haruki Murakami’s new novel, his first in six years, was perhaps inevitable considering its origins. The City and Its Uncertain Walls began as an attempt to rework a 1980 story of the same title, originally published in the Japanese magazine Bungakukai, which Murakami, unsatisfied, never allowed to be republished or translated.“I felt that this work contained something vital for me,” Murakami writes in the novel’s afterword, “at the time, though, unfortunately I lacked the skills to convey what that something was.” Five years later, his first attempt at a revision developed into the novel Hard‑Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, a narrative that ran “par...

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												64 minutes ago											Liz Truss opposes assisted dying bill saying NHS should be ‘protecting lives, not ending them’ – UK politics live
												
													The Telegraph, which first reported Truss’s stance, also said Theresa May and Boris Johnson were against the billGood morning. We have got PMQs later, which means party politics will probably dominate for much of the day in the chamber, but increasingly MPs are preoccupied with a free vote, non-partisan matter, the vote on the assisted dying bill on Friday. This morning there are at least two interesting developments on that story.Three former Conservative prime ministers are all opposed to the bill, the Telegraph is reporting. The paper has a quote from Liz Truss who says:It is wrong in principle: organs of the state like the NHS and the judicial system should be protecting lives, not ending them.No doubt, as we have seen in Canada, vulnerable people would be put under appalling pressu...												
												
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												71 minutes ago											Cabinet minister admits taxes COULD rise again despite vow from Rachel Reeves as Labour descends deeper into shambles
												
													Rachel Reeves made the pledge on Monday as she sought to placate business leaders about her £25billion raid on employer national insurance.												
												
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												79 minutes ago											Second day of London travel chaos as Elizabeth line services suspended until end of day
												
													Four other Tube lines have been hit with a seperate issues while the weather is disrupting trains into the city												
												
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												81 minutes ago											Inside walkable Scandinavian city with colourful old town that's Europe's 'friendliest'
												
													The 'friendliest' city in Europe has been revealed, according to Conde Nast Traveller's 2024 Readers Choice Awards, and it's the perfect spot for a city break												
												
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												84 minutes ago											The Taste of Mango review – powerful memoir of family secrets in Sri Lanka
												
													Film-maker Chloe Abrahams combines documentary and memory in candid conversations with the women in her familyThe mango taste is bittersweet in this documentary-memoir of family pain and secrets from film-maker Chloe Abrahams. Using a small digital videocamera and her smartphone, Abrahams records intimate, candid conversations with her mother and grandmother, and the resulting movie is a lucid, emotionally honest account of trauma that lies beneath the smiles of family photos and wedding videos.Abrahams shows the crisis of loyalty and agony of an abusive marriage, but shows also how the generational trauma can be healed when the generations come together. It’s a quietly powerful film to put, perhaps, alongside Victoria Mapplebeck’s Motherboard or Lina Soualem’s Bye Bye Tiberias. Abraham...												
												
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												1 hour ago											'A most distressing time': Top judge slams Labour's 'drastic' court funding decision
												
													Baroness Carr said the decision to limit court sitting days has had “drastic” results												
												
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												1 hour ago											Pep Guardiola explains odd facial cuts, scratches and blood after Man City collapse
												
													Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola caused concern as he displayed visible cuts and marks to his face after his team blew a 3-0 lead against Feyenoord in a spectacular collapse to draw 3-3												
												
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