![]() The Strange Library was translated by Ted Goossen. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and the most recent of his many international honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J. HARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. ![]() “I was given totally free rein.”īuy The Strange Library from Amazon. “It was a book designer’s dream,” Kidd told The New Yorker. The Strange Library Paperback16.9926.00 Please enable javascript to add items to the cart. Here’s why it belongs under the tree or alongside the menorah of your favorite lover of surreal fiction. But his collaboration on the whimsical fairy tale The Strange Library marks the first time he’s illustrated an entire book front-to-back. The Strange Libraryconcerns a boy whose routine trip to the city library turns nightmarish, and the strange characters who abet his escape. The New Yorker talked to the book’s illustrator, Chip Kidd, who designs books by James Ellroy, Cormac McCarthy, Oliver Sacks, and many other top-tier contemporary authors. 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.” “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,” noted a review at NPR. ![]()
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Bulis' novels for the BBC were The Ultimate Treasure (1997), Vanderdeken's Children (1998), City at World's End (1999), Imperial Moon (2000) and Palace of the Red Sun (2002).īulis also wrote the novel Tempest as part of Virgin's Bernice Summerfield range of novels, and also a short story for Big Finish Productions' Short Trips series. When Virgin lost their licence to publish novels based on Doctor Who, Bulis repeated this pattern writing novels for the BBC - with one novel written for the current incumbent Doctor as part of BBC Books' Eighth Doctor Adventures range, and then all of his other novels published as part of the Past Doctor Adventures range. ![]() This was the only novel Bulis wrote featuring the Seventh Doctor, and his next five books were all published under Virgin's Missing Adventures range: State of Change (1994), The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1995), The Eye of the Giant (1996), Twilight of the Gods (1996), and A Device of Death (1997). 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