- Published: 9 October 2018
- ISBN: 9781473549449
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 704
Killing Commendatore
- Published: 9 October 2018
- ISBN: 9781473549449
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 704
It’s safe to say that there’s no one like Murakami
Literary Review
Murakami’s reality has many sides; some plain, some fancy. Translators Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen capture every colour on this mind-altering palette. No other author mixes domestic, fantastic and esoteric elements into such weirdly bewitching shades. Murakami’s “Land of Metaphor” remains a country where wonders never cease
Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times
Wild, thrilling. . . Murakami is a master storyteller and he knows how to keep us hooked
Sunday Times
Exhilarating. . . . Only in the calm madness of his magical realism can Murakami truly capture one of his obsessions, the usually ineffable yearning that drives a person to make art
Washington Post
Expansive and intricate . . . touches on many of the themes familiar in Mr. Murakami’s novels: the mystery of romantic love, the weight of history, the transcendence of art, the search for elusive things just outside our grasp
New York Times
I found it totally gripping with scarcely a dull page, the loose ends enhancing its mystery. An absorbing work by a great writer
Daily Express
An immersive big-hearted new novel
Independent
Written in a simple, readable style that leaves you free to concentrate on the weirdness of the content… There is no other writer able to give us the fix that his unique qualities provide
Sunday Express
In this novel, [Murakami] captures the creative process compellingly… The complex landscape that Murakami assembles in Killing Commendatore is a word portrait of the artist’s inner life
Times Literary Supplement
Murakami keeps the reader gripped
The Week
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... Killing Commendatore is a perfect balance of tradition and individual talent
Spectator
Rich, sprawling… Killing Commendatore is a… powerful, sustained meditation on how we engage with works of art
Daily Telegraph
Brilliant… Murakami is good company, that most precious of qualities in an author
Xan Brooks, Guardian
Murakami has produced a captivating novel, full of otherworldly detours and fascinating digressions
Jane Shilling, Daily Mail
One of the most influential novelists of his generation
Observer
Uproarious, outspoken, tinged with deep grief
Boyd Tonkin, theartsdesk, **Books of the Year**
An exemplary translation
Max Davidson, Mail on Sunday
A massive 700-page exercise in narrative suspense. Reading the novel, you keep waiting for the book to fall to pieces, stunned that Murakami is getting so much from so little
Matt Thorne, Catholic Herald
Killing Commendatore appears then to be the summa of all the previous works of the author and of all the cultural influences that lead him to write them, shaping his imagination: a homage to his career, to his passions and art as well
Ruth-Anne Walbank, SCAN