![]() Whether he is writing for adults or children, remains a suspenseful and fantastical storyteller." - The Washington Post Cleverly designed and illustrated by Chip Kidd. For me, now, I'm just enjoying basking in the heat of this hypnotic short work by a master who is playing a long game." -Alan Cheuse, NPR Some scholar may explain it to us all one day, diagram the roots of his work in the Japanese storytelling tradition, in fable and myth, the special effects he imports from American literature. The mysterious pleasure of it all is the payoff when you read Murakami. ![]() ![]() The story itself, full of characters and images both awfully weird and utterly down to earth, transforms as you read it, becoming a living, nearly talismanic exercise in how to lift yourself out of the realm of the ordinary and allow the sentences to carry you into an alternate universe. ![]() "As 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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