The Strange Library
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The Strange Library
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Author : Haruki Murakami
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-12-02
The Strange Library written by Haruki Murakami and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-02 with Fiction categories.
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
The Strange Library
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Author : Joel Maxwell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
The Strange Library written by Joel Maxwell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Libraries categories.
Not only was the library weird, but the librarian was more than a little strange too! They say that visiting a library can change the way you look at the world, a visit to the Strange Library certainly does that. Suggested level: primary.
Haruki Murakami
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Author : Matthew C. Strecher
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-03-22
Haruki Murakami written by Matthew C. Strecher and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-22 with Education categories.
Japanese writer Haruki Murakami has achieved incredible popularity in his native country and world-wide as well as rising critical acclaim. Murakami, in addition to receiving most of the major literary awards in Japan, has been nominated several times for the Nobel Prize. Yet, his relationship with the Japanese literary community proper (known as the Bundan) has not been a particularly friendly one. One of Murakami’s central and enduring themes is a persistent warning not to suppress our fundamental desires in favor of the demands of society at large. Murakami’s writing over his career reveals numerous recurring motifs, but his message has also evolved, creating a catalogue of works that reveals Murakami to be a challenging author. Many of those challenges lie in Murakami’s blurring of genre as well as his rich blending of Japanese and Western mythologies and styles—all while continuing to offer narratives that attract and captivate a wide range of readers. Murakami is, as Ōe Kenzaburō once contended, not a “Japanese writer” so much as a global one, and as such, he merits a central place in the classroom in order to confront readers and students, but to be challenged as well. Reading, teaching, and studying Murakami serves well the goal of rethinking this world. It will open new lines of inquiry into what constitutes national literatures, and how some authors, in the era of blurred national and cultural boundaries, seek now to transcend those boundaries and pursue a truly global mode of expression.
The Curious Case Of Miser Snoot And The Bibliomaniacs
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Author : Charlie O'Shields
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2002-03
The Curious Case Of Miser Snoot And The Bibliomaniacs written by Charlie O'Shields and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Amanda, Jonathon and Sam, the sleuths of Curious Cases, Inc., have been looking for a mystery to solve. One day their teacher, Miss Imagine, suggests they try looking for mysteries inside their local library. The three detectives are skeptical at first, but decide to take the case. There, they meet Miss Preface, the mysterious librarian who starts them out on a fast-paced journey to a magical place known as Information Aisleland a land full of books where nothing is quite as it seems.The three sleuths soon learn that Miser Snoot, the evil bookkeeper, has stolen all of the Aisleland's books and it's up to Curious Cases, Inc. to get them back. As they meet the strange inhabitants of Information Aisleland, they collect new clues and soon discover that the key to stopping Snoot lies in learning the importance of reading the very books they are trying to save.This Curious Case unravels the secrets of reading and proves that even a local library can be a great place to start an adventure!
A Place That Matters Yet
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Author : Sara Byala
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-06-15
A Place That Matters Yet written by Sara Byala and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-15 with History categories.
A Place That Matters Yet unearths the little-known story of Johannesburg’s MuseumAfrica, a South African history museum that embodies one of the most dynamic and fraught stories of colonialism and postcolonialism, its life spanning the eras before, during, and after apartheid. Sara Byala, in examining this story, sheds new light not only on racism and its institutionalization in South Africa but also on the problems facing any museum that is charged with navigating colonial history from a postcolonial perspective. Drawing on thirty years of personal letters and public writings by museum founder John Gubbins, Byala paints a picture of a uniquely progressive colonist, focusing on his philosophical notion of “three-dimensional thinking,” which aimed to transcend binaries and thus—quite explicitly—racism. Unfortunately, Gubbins died within weeks of the museum’s opening, and his hopes would go unrealized as the museum fell in line with emergent apartheid politics. Following the museum through this transformation and on to its 1994 reconfiguration as a post-apartheid institution, Byala showcases it as a rich—and problematic—archive of both material culture and the ideas that surround that culture, arguing for its continued importance in the establishment of a unified South Africa.
Libraries In Literature
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Author : Alice Crawford
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022
Libraries In Literature written by Alice Crawford and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A collection that explores how libraries have been represented in English-language fiction, drama, and poetry from the early modern period to the present day. This accessible volume covers literature from Don Quixote to the work of M. R. James, Agatha Christie, and Haruki Murakami and draws together original essays by prestigious contributors.
Promise The Infinite
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Author : Robert Richart
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2016-05-07
Promise The Infinite written by Robert Richart and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-07 with Reference categories.
This is an annotated bibliography of English language novels which feature libraries or librarians from the 18th to the 21st century. It includes descriptions and quotes from the text. It includes novels, mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, and romance.
Johannesburg Pioneer Journals 1888 1909
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Author : Maryna Fraser
language : en
Publisher: Van Riebeeck Society, The
Release Date : 1985
Johannesburg Pioneer Journals 1888 1909 written by Maryna Fraser and has been published by Van Riebeeck Society, The this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) categories.
Haruki Murakami And The Search For Self Therapy
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Author : Jonathan Dil
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-02-24
Haruki Murakami And The Search For Self Therapy written by Jonathan Dil and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Haruki Murakami, a global literary phenomenon, has said that he started writing fiction as a means of self-therapy. What he has not discussed as much is what he needed self-therapy for. This book argues that by understanding more about why Murakami writes, and by linking this with the question of how he writes, readers can better understand what he writes. Murakami's fiction, in other words, can be read as a search for self-therapy. In five chapters which explore Murakami's fourteen novels to date, this book argues that there are four prominent therapeutic threads woven through Murakami's fiction that can be traced back to his personal traumas - most notably Murakami's falling out with his late father and the death of a former girlfriend – and which have also transcended them in significant ways as they have been transformed into literary fiction. The first thread looks at the way melancholia must be worked through for mourning to occur and healing to happen; the second thread looks at how symbolic acts of sacrifice can help to heal intergenerational trauma; the third thread looks at the way people with avoidant attachment styles can begin to open themselves up to love again; the fourth thread looks at how individuation can manifest as a response to nihilism. Meticulously researched and written with sensitivity, the result is a sophisticated exploration of Murakami's published novels as an evolving therapeutic project that will be of great value to all scholars of Japanese literature and culture.
Weird Tales Of Modernity
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Author : Jason Ray Carney
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2019-08-09
Weird Tales Of Modernity written by Jason Ray Carney and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
Serious literary artists such as T.S. Eliot, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf loom large in most accounts of the literary art of the first half of the 20th century. And yet, working in the shadows cast by these modernists were science fiction, horror and fantasy writers like the "Weird Tales Three": H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E. Howard. They did not publish in artistically ambitious magazines like Dial, The Smart Set and The Little Review but instead in commercial pulp magazines like Weird Tales. Contrary to the stereotypes about pulp fiction and those who wrote it, these three were serious literary artists who used their fiction to speculate about such philosophical questions as the function of art and the brevity of life.