September 2, 2014 -THE STRANGE LIBRARY, an illustrated story by the internationally acclaimed writer Haruki Murakami, will be published by Knopf on December 2nd, it was announced today by Sonny Mehta, Chairman and Editor in Chief. It will be the author"s second work of fiction to be released this season, following COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE, which was published last month and debuted at #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list on August 31st. "Murakami continues to dazzle readers with fantastical feats of storytelling," said Mehta, "And Strange Library is no exception. Indeed, this short work is as scary and surprising as anything he has ever written." "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. Once there, he is led to a...