Die Stadt und ihre ungewisse Mauer

A walled city that can only be entered by those who leave their own shadow behind: Here lives the true self of the girl whom the nameless narrator falls hopelessly in love with at seventeen. He sets out to find her, reaches the city and its mysterious library, but the girl no longer recognizes him.

Under mysterious circumstances, the narrator finds himself back in the world beyond the wall. He moves to Tokyo, works in a bookstore, and has a series of different girlfriends. The memory of the girl and the walled city haunts him. Eventually, he quits his job and takes a position in an old library in Fukushima Prefecture. Reality begins to crumble – and the narrator must question what binds him to this world.

A melancholic, tender, and philosophical novel about lost love, self-discovery, and the possibility of overcoming walls.