![]() If this strikes you as the stuff of dreams-or nightmares-then you’re on the right track. Two other characters are trapped in the labyrinth with the boy: one is a man dressed in a sheepskin, who makes the best fried doughnuts the boy has ever tasted, and the other is a mysterious, beautiful girl, who can’t speak and who may or may not exist, but who does her best to help the boy make sense of his predicament. The boy’s captor is an old librarian who wants to eat his brains-but only after the boy has memorized the contents of three obscure and weighty tomes on the subject of tax collection in the Ottoman Empire. It tells the story of a lonely, unnamed boy who finds himself imprisoned in a labyrinth beneath a library. ![]() The Strange Library, a novella by Haruki Murakami with illustrations by Chip Kidd, is an odd, beautiful little book. ![]()
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