
Category: Adults, Bestsellers, Literature, Mystery
Language: EnglishKeywords: Contemporary Historical Fiction Japan Japanese Literary Literary Fiction Magical Realism
Written by Haruki Murakami
Read by Kirby Heyborne
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Length: 28 hrs and 27 mins
Part I ■ The Idea Made Visible (14 hrs 09 mins)
Part II ■ The Shifting Metaphor (14 hrs 17 mins)
The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of “1Q84″ and “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”.
In “Killing Commendatore”, a 30-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 13-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.
*** Audible 10-Oct-2018 track numbering error FIXED ***
Length: 28 hrs and 27 mins
Part I ■ The Idea Made Visible (14 hrs 09 mins)
Part II ■ The Shifting Metaphor (14 hrs 17 mins)
The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of “1Q84″ and “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”.
In “Killing Commendatore”, a 30-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 13-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.
*** Audible 10-Oct-2018 track numbering error FIXED ***