The strange library murakami

Read 9,062 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami—a fantastical illustrated short no…

The quest for knowledge takes an unexpected turn in Haruki Murakami’s The Strange Library, published for the first time in English this December. Get a sneak preview of Ted Goossen’s translation in an exclusive gallery of pages from the illustrated edition

These strange stories are perfect for readers who may be disconcerted by the world and who take comfort from the weirdest fiction one can find.

A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a parable for these strange times. STEP INTO THE CITY. . . When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he sets his heart on finding the imaginary city where her true self lives. His search will lead him to take a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own. When he finally makes it to the walled city, a shadowless place of horned beasts and willow trees, he finds…

Everything that comes to pass in 'The Strange Library,' like in so much of Murakami’s fiction, questions the differences between what is real and what is not, and whether such a distinction even matters.

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Quick note: If you just finished reading Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, and if you're now hankering for some more Murakami, you won't have to wait very long. In December, his next book, a 96 page novella called The Strange Library, will be published by Knopf.