A short story presented in a beautiful little illustrated volume, this is a handsome edition for Murakami fans. The story itself is a surreal, dreamlike fairy tale about a boy who becomes trapped in a library, very much Murakami's style writ small. It's strange and haunting and ends on a note of loss and loneliness and foreboding, like a starker, less lush Nail Gaiman story. I liked it, but then it's a bit of a collector's item and I got a loan of it to read, so there's that.