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Bush Gregory David Roberts Guadalupe Nettel Hans Rosling Hanya Yanagihara Haruki Murakami Hillary Rodham Clinton J.K. Lax David Perlmutter Deepak Malholtra Donnie Easton Douglas Adams Duff McDonald Ed Catmull Emma Donoghue Ernest Ng Esther Perel Gary Chapman George Orwell George R.R. Mann Chinua Achebe Colson Whitehead Daniel Keyes David A. 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.Authors André Aciman Angela Davis Angie Thomas Anna Akana Atul Gawande Barack Obama Barbara Pierce Bush Brandon McMillan Cal Newport Celeste Ng Charles C. Murakami sets his story - newly translated from Japanese by Ted Goossen - in a realm of words, an unnamed city library. "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.
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.
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