For the first time in English! The boy only wants to return two books and browse a little. But instead of leading him to the reading room, the strangely choleric old librarian takes him into a labyrinth beneath the library, where he locks him up. Instead of water and bread, there are tea and delicious donuts in this dungeon, served by a mysterious sheep man and a mute girl who can speak and is beautiful. However, this does not change the fact that the boy must fear for his life as a prisoner of the library, while the boundaries between things, people, and places continue to blur. "The Strange Library" is a Kafkaesque nightmare and at the same time a poignant story of loss and loneliness. Murakami intertwines the layers of this artful narrative like the worlds that seem to touch within the library.