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Killing Commendatore (Paperback)
Haruki Murakami (author)Published: 03/10/2019
The epic new novel from Haruki Murakami, the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84. A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art - as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby - Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.
The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84 and Norwegian Wood.
In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada.
When he discovers a strange painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances.
To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist's home, and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors.
A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art - as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby - Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781784707330
Number of pages: 704
Weight: 506 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 35 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
It’s safe to say that there’s no one like Murakami - Literary Review
Murakami’s reality has many sides; some plain, some fancy. Translators Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen capture every colour on this mind-altering palette. No other author mixes domestic, fantastic and esoteric elements into such weirdly bewitching shades. Murakami’s “Land of Metaphor” remains a country where wonders never cease - Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times
Wild, thrilling. . . Murakami is a master storyteller and he knows how to keep us hooked - Sunday Times
Exhilarating. . . . Only in the calm madness of his magical realism can Murakami truly capture one of his obsessions, the usually ineffable yearning that drives a person to make art - Washington Post
Expansive and intricate . . . touches on many of the themes familiar in Mr. Murakami’s novels: the mystery of romantic love, the weight of history, the transcendence of art, the search for elusive things just outside our grasp - New York Times
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