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Killing Commendatore
- Author
- Haruki Murakami
- Narrator
- Kirby Heyborne
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 9 October 2018
- Run Time
- 28 hours 27 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami, read by Kirby Heyborne.
The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84.
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.
Critics Review
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It’s safe to say that there’s no one like Murakami
Literary Review
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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
Financial Times
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Wild, thrilling. . . Murakami is a master storyteller and he knows how to keep us hooked
Sunday Times
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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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I found it totally gripping with scarcely a dull page, the loose ends enhancing its mystery. An absorbing work by a great writer
Daily Express
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An immersive big-hearted new novel
Independent
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Written in a simple, readable style that leaves you free to concentrate on the weirdness of the content… There is no other writer able to give us the fix that his unique qualities provide
Sunday Express
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In this novel, [Murakami] captures the creative process compellingly… The complex landscape that Murakami assembles in Killing Commendatore is a word portrait of the artist’s inner life
Times Literary Supplement
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Murakami keeps the reader gripped
The Week
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Rich, sprawling… Killing Commendatore is a… powerful, sustained meditation on how we engage with works of art
Daily Telegraph
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Details
- Author
- Haruki Murakami
- Narrator
- Kirby Heyborne
- Duration
- 28 hours 27 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 October 2018
- ISBN
- 9781473549456
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Magical realism, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: love / relationships
Synopsis
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami, read by Kirby Heyborne.The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84.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.
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