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Eigentlich will der Junge nur zwei Bücher zurückgeben und noch ein wenig stöbern. Aber statt in den Lesesaal führt ihn der merkwürdig cholerische alte Bibliothekar in ein Labyrinth unter der Bücherei, wo er ihn einkerkert. Statt Wasser und Brot gibt es in diesem Verlies Tee und köstliche Donuts, serviert von einem mysteriösen Schafsmann und einem stummen Mädchen, das sprechen kann und wunderschön ist. Doch das ändert nichts daran, dass der Junge als Gefangener der Bibliothek um sein Leben fürchten muss, während die Grenzen zwischen Dingen, Menschen und Orten immer weiter verschwimmen. "Die unheimliche Bibliothek" ist ein kafkaesker Alptraum und zugleich eine einfühlsame Geschichte von Verlust und Einsamkeit. Murakami schachtelt die Ebenen dieser kunstvollen Erzählung ineinander wie die Welten, die sich in der Bibliothek zu berühren scheinen, und Kat Menschiks schwindelerregend schöne Illustrationen ergänzen sie um weitere Abgründe. Ein Juwel.

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 boy's brains. How will he escape?

'The best novelist on the planet' Observer

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum
24. November 2014
Sprache
englisch
Seitenanzahl
88
Autor/Autorin
Haruki Murakami
Übersetzung
Ted Goossen
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
gebunden
Gewicht
273 g
Größe (L/B/H)
206/134/17 mm
ISBN
9781846559211

Portrait

Haruki Murakami

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon.


In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.

Theodore (Ted) Goossen has translated the work


of many Japanese writers, most notably Naoya

Shiga, Haruki Murakami, and Hiromi Kawakami.

He is the editor of The Oxford Book of Japanese

Short Stories (1997) and the co-editor and founder, with Motoyuki Shibata, of the annual

literary journal Monkey Business (now Monkey:

new writing from Japan), which, since 2011, has

introduced a new generation of Japanese writers to English-speaking readers. Essays and stories by, as well as interviews with, Murakami are a staple of every issue.


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The best novelist on the planet Observer

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