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A perilous and fantastical satire of banned books, secret libraries, and the looming eye of an all-powerful government. The new book censor hasn’t slept soundly in weeks. By day he combs through manuscripts at a government office, looking for anything that would make a book unfit to publish―allusions to queerness, unapproved religions, any mention of life before the Revolution. By night the characters of literary classics crowd his dreams, and pilfered novels pile up in the house he shares with his wife and daughter. As the siren song of forbidden reading continues to beckon, he descends into a netherworld of resistance fighters, undercover booksellers, and outlaw librarians trying to save their history and culture. Reckoning with the global threat to free speech and the bleak future it all but guarantees, Bothayna Al-Essa marries the steely dystopia of Orwell’s 1984 with the madcap absurdity of Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, resulting in a dreadful twist worthy of Kafka. The Book Censor’s Library is a warning call and a love letter to stories and the delicious act of losing oneself in them.

تضافرت الحكايتان معًا على شكل مشروع كتاب عن القراءة، وكان أن أصدرته في محاولة للبحث عن قراء مثاليين يملؤون هذا العالم حكمة ويقينًا بنظرتهم المختلفة ووعيهم المتزايد تجاه النصوص الماثلة أمامهم، ومنها إلى تأليف وكتابة متميزين ينبعان من قراءة مميزة. كل ما يطلبه منك هذا الكتاب هو ألا تقرأ مثل باقي الناس وإلا ستفكر مثلهم. فهذه المجموعة ليست عن الكتب، ولا عن المكتبات، بل عن القراءة كفعل وممارسة وكيف ينظر لها تسعة من كبار المؤلفين العالميين الذين أثروا العالم بنتاجهم المتميز. لا أطلب منك أن تتبع ما قالوه – وإن أردت فهذا خيارك –، لكن لا تقرأ كما كنت تفعل، أو على الأقل لا تقرأ لأجل ما كنت تقرأ لأجله. اقرأ بشكل مختلف لترى بطريقة مختلفة، ومن هنا ستنطلق وتعبر عن ذاتك بما يختلف عن بقية من حولك. سترى في هذا الكتاب نماذج مختلفة من القراء المميزين ونظرتهم المختلفة للقراءة وما يتصل بها، مما سيخرج بك – كما آمل – إلى مستوى جديد للقراءة، سواء باتباعهم أو بشق طريقك الخاص.

Román o krásnych knihách, ich čitateľoch a malebnom mestečku na juhu Francúzska Natália a Nathan majú dve dospelé deti a sú vo veku, kedy uvažujú o začiatku novej životnej etapy. Rozhodnú sa, že opustia Paríž a vydajú sa do pôvabného stredovekého mestečka Uzѐs na juhu Francúzska. Natália tam objaví malé kníhkupectvo, ktoré ju očarí natoľko, že sa rozhodne splniť si svoj dávny sen. Kúpi si ho a konečne môže naplno tráviť čas so svojimi milovanými knihami a ich čitateľmi. Vďaka svojej láskavosti, empatii a pozitívnemu prístupu k životu si Natália veľmi rýchlo získava srdcia návštevníkov obchodíka a postupne sa stávajú jej priateľmi. A tak toto pôvabné miesto plné úžasných kníh ožíva skutočnými príbehmi Natáliiných zákazníkov – či už je to mladučká Cloé s problematickým vzťahom s prísnymi rodičmi, neúnavný cestovateľ Filip, slepý legionár Tarik či poštár Arthur, snívajúci o živote herca... Dobrá kniha je balzamom na dušu a liekom na rôzne neduhy a Natália vie odporučiť tú pravú na každý z nich. Nie nadarmo sa vo Francúzsku hovorí „joie de vivre“.

From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami—a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library. Opening the flaps on this unique little book, readers will find themselves immersed in the strange world of best-selling Haruki Murakami's wild imagination. The story of a lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plotting their escape from a nightmarish library, the book is like nothing else Murakami has written. Designed by Chip Kidd and fully illustrated in full color throughout, this small format, 96-page volume is a treat for book lovers of all ages.

Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets? A novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.