The strange library
In a fantastical illustrated short novel, three people imprisoned in a nightmarish library plot their escape.
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Subject |
Prisoners > Fiction. Libraries > Fiction. Librarians > Fiction. Mute persons > Fiction. Boys > Fiction. Books and reading > Fiction. |
Genre |
Fantasy fiction. Horror fiction. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 0385683146
- ISBN: 9780385683142
- ISBN: 9780385354301
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Physical Description
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1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations - Publisher [Toronto] : Bond Street Books, [2014]
- Copyright ©2014
Content descriptions
General Note: | Cover title. "107." Translation of: Fushigi na toshokan. Front cover consists of overlapping folded cardboard flaps that extend from the top and bottom of the back cover. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 24.00 |
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The Strange Library
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Summary
The Strange Library
Fully illustrated and beautifully designed, this is a unique and wonderfully creepy tale that is sure to delight Murakami fans. "All I did was go to the library to borrow some books." On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library finds himself wondering how taxes were collected in the Ottoman Empire. He pops into the local library to see if it has a book on the subject. This is his first mistake. 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. 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 boys' brains. How will he escape?