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Killing Commendatore
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  • Published: 1 October 2019
  • ISBN: 9781784707330
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 704
  • RRP: $22.99
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Killing Commendatore

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Paperback
1 Oct 2019
EBook
9 Oct 2018
Audiobook
9 Oct 2018
Audio CD
6 Aug 2019
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The latest bewitching, kaleidoscopic novel from master storyteller Haruki Murakami, author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and 1Q84

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We all live our lives carrying secrets we cannot disclose.

'Beguiling... Murakami is brilliant at folding the humdrum alongside the supernatural; finding the magic that's nested in life's quotidian details' Guardian

When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he holes up in the mountain home of a famous artist. The days drift by, spent painting, listening to music and drinking whiskey in the evenings. But then he discovers a strange painting in the attic and unintentionally begins a strange journey of self-discovery that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt and a haunted underworld.

A stunning work of imagination, Killing Commendatore is a surreal tale of love and loneliness, war and art.
  • Published: 1 October 2019
  • ISBN: 9781784707330
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 704
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Haruki Murakami

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon.

In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.

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Also by Haruki Murakami

Super-Frog Saves Tokyo
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Norwegian Wood
Kafka on the Shore
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland
1Q84
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