The Strange Library

The single star is not for the story, which is okay but far from classic Murakami, but for a publishing industry that thinks packaging a slight short story with a few illustrations and library stamps and then charging thirteen quid for it is a decent and reasonable way to treat its customers, not to mention shrink wrapping the cover so you can't see what's really going on when browsing in a bookshop. There is fifteen minutes of reading here, if you're lucky. One to get out from - badoom, tish - the library.