The Strange Library Haruki Murakami 2014 Harvill Secker pp. 88 (Audio book 1 hour) The Strange Library describes a young man’s experiences at a library which he visits to return books, and gets entrapped into reading thick books. The book is absurd with a surreal touch to it. It leaves you with a sense of…
Birthday Stories Haruki Murakami 2006 Vintage Books pp. 207 Birthday stories is an anthology of stories written on the theme of birthdays. Most stories are snippets from a single day or at most a few days. The short stories, I am ashamed to admit, are mostly by writers I have never read before. Murakami is…
1Q84 (Books 1, 2 and 3) Haruki Murakami 2012 Vintage pp. 1318 About the Books: The trilogy is a fictional account of the year 1984. Set in Japan, the story revolves around the experiences of two main characters, Tengo and Aomame. Their interconnected lives and distant, yet shared experiences lead them to what can…
