{"id":299146,"date":"2014-09-02T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2014\/09\/02\/murakami-can-not-be-stopped\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T15:12:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:12:34","slug":"murakami-can-not-be-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2014\/09\/02\/murakami-can-not-be-stopped\/","title":{"rendered":"Murakami Can Not Be Stopped!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right on the heels of the recent release of Murakami&#8217;s  <em>Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage<\/em> (see our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=12262\">review here<\/a>), Murkami has <em>another<\/em> book coming out. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/09\/01\/new-96-page-murakami-work-coming-in-december\/\"><em>New York Times<\/em>:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Haruki Murakami\u2019s next book, \u201cThe Strange Library,\u201d sounds surreal and experimental even for an author whose work features talking cats, giant frogs and malicious miniature people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The Strange Library,<\/em> which will be published in the United States by Knopf <b>this December,<\/b> is narrated by a boy who visits a library on his way home from school. An old man takes the boy hostage and forces him to memorize a large number of books. The boy eventually realizes that the man plans to absorb the information he\u2019s memorized by eating his brain. With the help of a strange girl and a man dressed as a sheep, the captive devises an escape plan. (Men dressed as sheep have cropped up in Mr. Murakami\u2019s work before.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Murakami is the just the literary Hello Kitty&#8212;everywhere and unstoppable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right on the heels of the recent release of Murakami&#8217;s Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (see our review here), Murkami has another book coming out. From the New York Times: Haruki Murakami\u2019s next book, \u201cThe Strange Library,\u201d sounds surreal and experimental even for an author whose work features talking cats, giant frogs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[6506,1646],"class_list":["post-299146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-haruki-murakami","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317206,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299146\/revisions\/317206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}