The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This was a fun little fairy tale of a romp, if your romps involve you getting locked up in the basement of a library and being forced to read a book about the Ottoman Empire tax collecting.
Instead of a moral at the end we get a bit of a gut punch in the final note. But it’s not like it’s a long story that’ll take you ages to get there.