Killing Commendatore

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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

Itu2019s safe to say that thereu2019s no one like Murakami
Literary Review
Murakamiu2019s 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. Murakamiu2019s u201cLand of Metaphoru201d remains a country where wonders never cease
Financial Times
Wild, thrilling. . . Murakami is a master storyteller and he knows how to keep us hooked
Sunday Times
Expansive and intricate . . . touches on many of the themes familiar in Mr. Murakamiu2019s 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
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
An immersive big-hearted new novel
Independent
Written in a simple, readable style that leaves you free to concentrate on the weirdness of the contentu2026 There is no other writer able to give us the fix that his unique qualities provide
Sunday Express
In this novel, [Murakami] captures the creative process compellinglyu2026 The complex landscape that Murakami assembles in Killing Commendatore is a word portrait of the artistu2019s inner life
Times Literary Supplement
Murakami keeps the reader gripped
The Week
Rich, sprawlingu2026 Killing Commendatore is au2026 powerful, sustained meditation on how we engage with works of art
Daily Telegraph

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