The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84and 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 PublishingISBN: 9781784707330Number of pages: 704Weight: 506 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 35 mm
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'A beguiling novel...Murakami is eminently good company,that most precious of qualities we look for in an author.'- The Guardian
'Murakami's'Land of Metaphor'remains a country where wonders never cease.'- The Financial Times
'...will only burnish his reputation as the living novelist who best combines literary excellence and commercial popularity.'- The Telegraph
'One of the most influential novelists of his generation.'- The Observer
Haruki Murakami
Japan's best-known novelist abroad and the author of many novels as well as short stories and non-fiction,includingThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,Kafka on the Shore,After Dark,1Q84,What I Talk About When I Talk About RunningandColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.
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