An inquiring schoolboy stops by on the way home from class, returns some library books ( How to Build a Submarine and Memoirs of a Shepherd) and asks for reading on a subject he says has just popped into his head: tax collection in the Ottoman Empire.Īn unfamiliar female librarian sends him down to room 107, "a creepy room" where yet another strange librarian (a bald man this time) hands him the requested volumes - then conducts him to a secret space, behind a locked door and down a hall to a labyrinth of corridors, where a small man dressed in a sheepskin puts him in a cell under lock and key. The Strange Library By Haruki Murakami Translated by Ted Goossen Read by Kirby Heyborne 1.02 Hours 1 Format : Digital Download 10.00 7.00 or 1 Credit From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakamia fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library. Murakami sets his story - newly translated from Japanese by Ted Goossen - in a realm of words, an unnamed city library. In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. He pops into the local library to see if it has a book on the subject.
"The library was even more hushed than usual," we read in the opening sentence (the entire book is set in a typeface called, appropriately, Typewriter), calling attention to the fact that we're in for a special event. On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library finds himself wondering how taxes were collected in the Ottoman Empire. How?Īs if the work of Japanese fiction master Haruki Murakami weren't strangely beautiful by itself, his American publisher has just put out a stand-alone edition of his 2008 novella The Strange Library, in a new trade paperback designed by the legendary Chip Kidd. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Strange Library Author Haruki Murakami and Ted Goossen
0 kommentar(er)
