Haruki Murakami’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls, its English translation published last November, plunges the reader into a kind of metaphysical vertigo that never reaches a concluding synthesis.

What’s true for legends is true of Haruki Murakami’s stories, which often draw comparisons to Kafka’s. In Murakami’s 15th novel, “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” just published with ...

Scott Fitzgerald’s books more accessible to Japanese readers, novelist Haruki Murakami has translated ... if incomplete, work of art. “The unfinished story appeared less interesting to me ...