The Strange Library: Haruki Murakami

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The nightmare is a hideous parody of this desire to escape: the place that he escapes to has become the place he must escape from.

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We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads.While the content of the book is a bit slim and reads more like a children’s novel, all the hallmarks of classic Murakami are within.

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The career of novelist Haruki Murakami has conventionally been divided into two periods: detachment and commitment. La biblioteca secreta me pareció una historia con un inicio normal, un nudo que pensé era parte también del comienzo, pero con un desenlace que no esperaba tan pronto. Nightmares can be so terrifying that they cause the dreamer to wake up, but there are also bad dreams where the anxiety never reaches a level that awakens the dreamer. He makes his way down a long flight of stairs and through the gloomy corridor of a basement he didn’t know existed. While the story would have felt at home between the covers of The Elephant Vanishes, it also works quite well as a children's novel.Even though the writing and narration style is a little different compared to the usual style of Murakami, this will still be a good choice to start reading him if you don't like reading bigger books as it is comparatively smaller in size compared to his other works. But then again, it has no clear message that can teach a children a lesson or two except of course, to be afraid of going alone to a library. A solitary boy, a mystifying girl, a sheep man and a bird, all entwined in a fantastical, simplistic plot - all nods to past Murakami works. He allows the reader to have all the fun of a children’s book without sacrificing the literary merit or writing caliber. Indeed, Tan’s The Arrival tells a complex and moving tale about immigration without words, one that managed to move my wife, herself an immigrant, to tears.