The Strange Library: Haruki Murakami

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The UK design also uses found pictures and imagery, but it is more varied and elaborate (see examples and some discussion here). These aren't books he can take home with him, and the old man is rather insistent that he read them there -- never mind that it's near closing time ("They do what I tell them -- if I say it's all right, then it's all right").

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Can a font be heart-breaking? I didn't think so, until now. . . . More than anything, I found myself free-associating while reading The Strange Library Kafka, Dalí, Nabokov, and Poe all came to mind." --Jon Morris, PopMatters In literature, the labyrinth is always a metaphor, but in The Strange Library could it be the space of some sort of psychogenic fugue? Edgar Allan Poe, an author who came to mind at times when I was reading The Strange Library, says that a short story is one that can be read in a single sitting, and most readers will manage to finish this book accordingly. Yet, like Poe’s own stories, many shorts also demand to be reread, and this is the case with Murakami’s tale, as well.

the inexplicable and absurd together with their resultant dilemmas: "How could I escape?", "How much of what I remember really happened?", "Could I have been dreaming?", is it not "awfully cruel" for the old man to go to such lengths?; Murakami’s plot might seem a gross-out, but the story is amusing enough for 10-to-13-year-olds and sufficiently resonant to appeal to adults with an affinity for fantasy. (...) Murakami does lapse into bouts of over-playfulness, but whether he is writing for adults or children, he remains a suspenseful and fantastical storyteller." - Joseph Peschel, The Washington Post Then, there is the leitmotif of stolen time. Speaking again of the girl, the narrator tells us that “she seemed exhausted. She had lost her color and had grown transparent, so that I could see the wall behind her.”

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This is a book you need to hold, touch, and smell. My edition (illustrated at the top of this review) has an old-fashioned library card wallet glued to the outside front cover. Why did something like this have to happen to me? All I did was go to the library to borrow some books.’ In February 2005 an illustrated edition of The Strange Library appeared in Japanese (図書館奇譚 toshokankitan, published by Kodansha). This was then republished in January 2008 as a Kodansha Bunko edition. The illustrations are by Maki Sasaki. [5] The Strange Library (2014 editions) [ edit ] From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami—a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library.Doctor Kato has printed out your scans and asked me to go through your thoughts on the book with you. Firstly I want to ask whether you enjoyed the premise." Young boy goes to the library where he is tossed into a cell and told he has a month to memorize the three tomes he requested. Man covered in sheep fur is his sympathetic jailer. He informs boy the librarian wants to eat his brain after it's filled with the words of the books. Sheepman sometimes turns into a beautiful young girl who speaks through her hands -- not with her hands as in sign language, but with her hands. Beautiful girl who talks through hands wants to help boy escape. A] charming, surreal story. . . . Cleverly designed and illustrated by Chip Kidd. . . . Whether he is writing for adults or children, [Murakami] remains a suspenseful and fantastical storyteller.”— The Washington Post

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Little kids love being scared out of their pants, right? I remember I loved those un-Bowdlerized Grimm tales with wolves wolfing down your granny and little kids thrown into the oven for dinner. Our unnmaed narrator has his own share of terror in the maze-like corridors of the library: Lccn 2014020817 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9383 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-2000061 Openlibrary_editionOne of the exciting trips for all the bookworms will be their trips to the library. This trip will help you to discover new books that entertain you and sometimes even change your life in the best way possible. What if this journey turns into a nightmare? Murakami tells a similar story of a boy who gets trapped inside a library.

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The doors opened directly into a reception area. It was beige and there was no signage. I was paranoid that I had the wrong place. But then the woman at the reception looked up and I knew that I was in the correct place. The story is set pre-Google, and it should probably be read as if Kindles and audio books don't exist either. But despite the ladder coming down I felt a calm relaxation and sat at the bottom of the well for a few more minutes. It was quiet and dark. it was unusually comfortable.It has elements of Kafka, Borges, Roald Dahl, Hillaire Belloc and Tim Burton, Neil Gaiman, with a dash of Orwell (but one digit out). It looks like a beautifully designed and illustrated children's book, though it's rather dark for small children, and YA feels wrong as well.