Killing Commendatore
By Haruki Murakami
- Release Date: 2018-10-09
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art—from one of our greatest writers. • “Exhilarating ... magical.” —The Washington Post
When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he secludes himself in the mountain home of a world famous artist. One day, the young painter hears a noise from the attic, and upon investigation, he discovers a previously unseen painting. By unearthing this hidden work of art, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances; and to close it, he must undertake a perilous journey into a netherworld that only Haruki Murakami could conjure.
Reviews
Killing Commentatore
5By baoz46Amazing from cover to cover.Interesting but seemingly a re-hash
2By Cardinal billI enjoy Murakami, having read all of his fiction. And I think that’s the problem I have with this one—you can glean artifacts of his prior books. I had flashbacks to several prior works while reading this, particularly the underground travels (“Hardboiled...”), the pit (“Wind-Up...”) and even Amada’s nursing home view of the ocean (was it “Kafka...”?). And is this the first time that the ending is a nice, neat tie-up of all the plot lines? Almost like this one got mailed in.How to become an idea
5By Oz DaveI just adore Murakami’s ability to trap the reader within the story and then the feeling of being an observer of the events. Yet again his prose creates visualisations so that I become, perhaps, an Idea. Thoroughly, thoroughly recommended, even more so if you are a Murakami fan.
