# 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
- ISBN: 978-17-8470-733-0
- Pages: 704
- Published: 2019-10-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.