# Killing Commendatore

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- Book: [Killing Commendatore](https://www.bookquiver.com/haruki-murakami/killing-commendatore) ([Killing Commendatore.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/haruki-murakami/killing-commendatore.md))
- Authors: [Haruki Murakami](https://www.bookquiver.com/haruki-murakami)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 28 h 27 min
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- ISBN: 978-14-7354-945-6
- Published: 2018-10-09
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 28 h 27 min

## Description

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.