The Commissar's desire to bring back his dead daughter is driven by love — but he is willing to harm everyone else to achieve it. Farr asks where the boundaries of love should be.
The city under the Commissar's control is a portrait of authoritarian rule. The Library represents knowledge, freedom and resistance.
Books and stories are literally powerful in this world. The Book of Stolen Dreams represents the idea that stories can change reality — for good or ill.
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