Killing Commendatore

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Críticas Exhilarating. --The Washington Post Some novelists hold a mirror up to the world and some like Haruki Murakami use the mirror as a portal to a universe hidden beyond it. --The Wall Street Journal [Murakami] is as masterful as ever. --Houston Chronicle A spellbinding parable of art history and human loneliness. --O The Oprah Magazine The product of a singular imagination. --San Francisco Chronicle Expansive and intricate. --The New York Times Beguiling. . . . Murakami is brilliant. --The Guardian Dazzling. . . . [Murakami] reveals how an artist sees the world. --Entertainment Weekly [A] sprawling uncanny epic. . . . A time-traveling tale of loss longing and the creation of art--with an ample dash of Murakami's trademark deadpan humor. --Vanity Fair A perfect balance of tradition and individual talent. . . . Murakami dancing along 'the inky blackness of the Path of Metaphor' is like Fred Astaire dancing across a floor then up the walls and onto the ceiling. --The Spectator A surreal world-altering epic punctuated by art literature and history. --Time [Murakami] once more explicates the seemingly impossible with such thorough exacting conviction to make believers of us all. --The Christian Science Monitor No other author mixes domestic fantastic and esoteric elements into such weirdly bewitching shades. . . . Just as [Murakami] straddles barriers dividing high art from mass entertainment so he suspends borders between east and west. --Financial Times [Killing Commendatore] marks the return of a master. --Esquire The complex landscape that Murakami assembles in Killing Commendatore is a word portrait of the artist's inner life. --The Times Literary Supplement Fascinating. . . . Drawing on Buddhist spiritualism metaphysics and magical realism--not to mention Lewis Carroll--Killing Commendatore finds its narrator enmeshed in a singular philosophic adventure. --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Enthralling. --Forward Murakami beautifully captures the evanescence of inspiration. --Vulture Its size beauty and concerns with lust and war bring us back to the vividness and scale of [Murakami's] 1997 epic The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.'' --The Boston Globe Lovely and strange. --Bustle Wild thrilling. . . . Murakami is a master storyteller and he knows how to keep us hooked. . . . What makes his voice so distinctive and so captivating is the mix of precise observation clarity and deadpan humour. --The Sunday Times (London) Reseña del editor 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. A tour de force of love and loneliness war and art Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers. Biografía del autor Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages and the most recent of his many international honors is the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award whose previous recipients include J. K. Rowling Isabel Allende and Salman Rushdie.