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  The title of the book, Библиотекарь ( The Librarian) 1, deceptively conjures up the expectation of perhaps some quiet evening reading. Indeed, The Librarian is a novel about books, about the mystical powers of the written word. In the beginning, one hardly expects the strange turbulence which books such as this can create including the violent refusal of the readers of the books by the obscure writer Gromov to recognize the end of the epoch, and an almost Kafkaesque end to the book. Gromov's books had the magical powers to change the person who read them and readers started to organize the "libraries" or armies to fight for these books.