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Killing Commendatore

By: Haruki Murakami
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
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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.

2019, The Kitschies Inky Tentacle, Winner

©2018 Haruki Murakami (P)2018 Random House Audiobooks Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Magical Realism Small Town & Rural World Literature Mind-bending

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it's a Murakami....not much happens...but when it does, it goes off very gently...Probably his slowest to date but it's still ok, it's not IQ84, or even close, but still passes the time on the train, but won't wow you.

it's a Murakami......not much happens...but

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a long story for a simple message, lots of storylines which come together in the end.

suitably strange gentle narrative

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I'm a huge Murakami fan, for many years now. This could not be mistaken for anyone's work but his.

Wonderful Enchanting Journey

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Just the right amount of Darkness. Just the right amount of Drama. A story that gives food for thought as it twists and winds its way to then end . I enjoyed this very much.

an enchanting and thought provoking tale.

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narrator sounded a bit like a robot, but once getting used to, exellent narrative and clearly understandable and pronounceable

exellent

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I’ve read or listened to all of Murakami’s novels. Immediately I was struck in hearing this one by odd linguistic anomalies, awkward word choices, jarring language usages. So I checked translators. Indeed, Killing Commendatore has been translated by someone who has not translated the author before. He’s done a clunky job, so poor than even someone who doesn’t read Japanese, as I don’t, can tell. Don’t judge the master by this example.

All Murakami is wonderful, but this is not Murakami at his best.

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A much welcomed return to Murakami’s engrossing and compelling alternate reality. However I did find the naration too slow and tedious to the extent that I was unable to keep focussed on the book. So I tried increasing the playback speed to x1.25 and found this was enough to keep my mind from wandering!

Classic Murakami with poor naration

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Kind of predictable, all the generic components and characters you'd expect of Murakami told in the usual manner.

sadly, not one of his best

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I’ve read/listened to all of Haruki Murakami’s novels now.
I really loved Kafka on the Shore and though I enjoyed The Wind Up Bird Chronicles and the others, I doubted it could be improved upon. Then I read IQ84 and was proved wrong! Surely he couldn’t top that?
Well remarkably he has. This one is even more enthralling, with even more fascinating characters and subtle psychological adventures. I adore the simultaneous tranquility and excitement that only Murakami can achieve.
Spectacular.

His best yet

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Too many of the same elements and characters. The same protagonist, a woman that leaves him, a car trip, a house in the middle not nowhere, a girl, breasts talk, classical music, a ditch. I see A Wild Sheep Chase and The Wind Up Bird Chronicle mostly but from other novel too.

performance was ok

Murakami reclying himself

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