Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers. 'The best novelist on the planet' Observer His mother will be worrying why he hasn't returned in time for dinner and the old man seems to have an appetite for eating small boy's brains. Led to a special 'reading room' in a maze under the library by a strange old man, he finds himself imprisoned with only a sheep man, who makes excellent donuts, and a girl, who can talk with her hands, for company. He pops into the local library to see if it has a book on the subject. On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library finds himself wondering how taxes were collected in the Ottoman Empire. 'All I did was go to the library to borrow some books'. A unique and wonderfully creepy tale that is sure to delight Murakami fans.
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