It was 'great relief' for Haruki Murakami to finish his latest novel

"The 1980 novella I wrote, 'The City, and Its Uncertain Walls' is the only work of mine I haven't allowed to be reprinted. I felt it was still raw and immature."

"The theme I explored in that story was a very important one for me, and what I wrote about was, you might say, an inception point for me as a novelist."

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