Killing Commendatore
by Haruki Murakami
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Description
The painter’s wife has left him for a younger man. Taking some time away from Tokyo, he starts looking after the empty house of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. Not long after he moves in, a scraping sound in the attic leads him to find a carefully wrapped canvas, labelled ‘Killing Commendatore’. This unusual painting leads him to delve into Amada’s life story and those of his neighbours. It also brings him into contact with a strange parallel universe, from which the Commendatore himself emerges. When his neighbour’s daughter vanishes, the painter must embark on a quest that leads him back to a tragedy in his own past.
A profound engagement with art and its creation, Killing Commendatore asks whether confronting the past can ever bring comfort, or just more pain? Ambitious, haunting, and multi-layered, it is reminiscent of Murakami’s masterpiece The Wind-up Bird Chronicle , and takes his narrative art in new and exciting directions.
A profound engagement with art and its creation, Killing Commendatore asks whether confronting the past can ever bring comfort, or just more pain? Ambitious, haunting, and multi-layered, it is reminiscent of Murakami’s masterpiece The Wind-up Bird Chronicle , and takes his narrative art in new and exciting directions.
Details
Killing Commendatore
by Haruki Murakami
ISBN
9781787300668
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Binding
Hardback
Publication date
Oct. 9, 2018
Page count
608 pages