Killing Commendatore: A novelNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art—from one of our greatest writers. • “Exhilarating ... magical.” —The Washington Post 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. |
Contents
From a Distance Most Things Look Beautiful | |
He Has Stopped BreathingHis Limbs Are Cold | |
At This Point Hes a Faceless Client | |
For Better or for Worse Its an Easy Name to Remember | |
The Shifting Metaphor | |
I Like Things I Can See as Much as Things I | |
Couldnt Recall the Last Time I Checked My Tires Air Pressure | |
You Should Have Just Left That Place Alone | |
What I Want Is Not to Have to Discuss the Rules of the Game | |
Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining | |
He Could Never Be a Dolphin | |
A Camouflaged Container Designed for a Specific Purpose | |
A Blessing in Disguise | |
Exchanging Fragments with Each Other | |
As We Push Our Way Through the Lush Green Grass | |
The Moonlight Shone Beautifully on Everything | |
Like That Nameless Mailman | |
At This Point Its Merely a Hypothesis | |
But Something This Strange Is a First | |
This Is Only the Beginning | |
A Relatively Good | |
How Could I Miss Something That Important? | |
Curiosity Didnt Just Kill the | |
Can You See Anything Behind | |
The Moment When Existence and Nonexistence Coalesce | |
Its Small but Should You Cut with It Blood Will Certainly Come | |
The Invitation Is Still Open | |
They All Really Exist | |
Merely Gathering Raw Data | |
How Much Loneliness the Truth Can Cause | |
The Composition Couldnt Be Improved | |
Even Though You Remember Exactly What It Looked Like | |
Franz Kafka Was Quite Fond of Slopes | |
Any Unnatural Elements | |
It Really Depends on the Person | |
Maybe a Little Too Perfect | |
His Skills Were in Great Demand | |
I Could Not Mistake the Face | |
Only as Long as I Didnt Turn Around | |
If It Breaks When You Drop It Its an | |
It Couldnt End Like Any Other Dream | |
The Traits That Make a Person Who They | |
Something Is About to Happen | |
People Are Powerless Before a Sturdy Towering Wall | |
It Is Now Friday Is It Not? | |
The Spaniards Simply Couldnt Navigate the Angry Seas Off the Irish Coast | |
Filled with Just as Many Deaths | |
It Will Involve Ordeal and Sacrifice | |
Now Is the Time | |
The Man in the Orange Cone | |
Maybe a Fireplace Poker | |
Eternity Is a Very Long Time | |
A Clear Contravention of Basic Principles | |
It Appears That Several Blanks Need Filling | |
Something I Have to Do Eventually | |
Like Hearing About the Beautiful Canals of Mars | |
Until Death Separated | |
If That Person Had Pretty Long Arms | |
I Have to Be a Brave Smart Girl | |
One Can Stumble into a Labyrinth | |
But Its Not What Youre Thinking | |
As a Form of Grace | |
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