What if the library wasn't just a place to keep books, but a gateway to the impossible?

The Library is a mosaic novel by Zoran Živković that won the World Fantasy Award in 2003. It brings together six interconnected stories—"Virtual Library," "Home Library," "Night Library," "Hell Library," "The Smallest Library," and "The Elegant Library." In each, the protagonist is a writer whose existence revolves around books, but he soon finds that libraries are not merely repositories of knowledge but living, breathing entities.

From a library that contains every book ever written to one that fits inside a single mailbox, Živković explores the surreal relationship between the reader, the writer, and the infinite universe of the page. It is a love letter to literature that demands the reader accept the miraculous as the only rational explanation for the magic of reading.