Summary
Haruki Murakami: The Assassination of Komtur I-II
Part One: The Idea Appears, 414 p.
Part Two: The Metaphor Moves, 436 p.
An epic masterpiece by the celebrated Japanese novelist, the author of Kafka in Mourning and Norwegian Forest.
The Tokyo painter is abandoned by his wife of thirty years. the portraitist finds himself alone in the mountain house of the famous artist Tomohiko Amada. He discovers a strange picture in the attic and inadvertently starts a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he embarks on a journey that includes a mysterious bell, a dwarf embodiment of an idea, an elegant businessman who lives at the opposite end of the valley, a thirteen-year-old girl too mature for her age, the Nazis and an assassination in Vienna during World War II, a pit in the woods behind the painter's house, and an underground inhabited by double metaphors. A sumptuous ode to love and loneliness, war and art, a tribute to the Great Gatsby, Murder of the Commendatore is a brilliant figment of the imagination of one of today's greatest writers.
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