Haruki Murakami published a new message on the official site of his new novel “The City and Its Uncertain Walls”. The message is below.
I began writing this work at the beginning of March 2020, when the corona virus began to rage in Japan, and it took me nearly three years to complete it. I hardly ever went out or traveled for long periods of time, and I continued to write this novel day after day in that rather bizarre and stressful environment, like a “dream reader” reading an “old dream” in a library. It may or may not mean anything. But maybe it does mean something. I feel this firsthand.
Haruki Murakami
https://www.shinchosha.co.jp/special/hm/?hm_20230410#message (Official Site)