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A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art, Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers. 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.
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I found the prose irritating both for its dullness and its lack of understanding of females. Between the cold and distasteful (and nearly constant) descriptions of women's bodies and the long descriptive passages of nothing happening, not to mention the maunderings of the main character who is unable to perform any actions, I gave up on this book about 200 pages in. I've long been a fan of Mr. Murakami's writing -- just recently 1Q84 became one of my favorite novels -- and will continue to read his works that I didn't get to yet, but I don't think I'll be back to this one.
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