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Title: Killing Commendatore
Author: Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 9780525520047
Edition: 1st US Edition
Jacket Design by: Chip Kidd
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published date: October 09, 2018
In-language: English (translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goosen)
Originally published by: Shinchosha Publishing Co, Ltd.
Genre: Fiction, Supernatural, Horror
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Just a brief summary: this is a story of a painter with a failed relationship. He is offered to reside on another famous painter's house by his friend. Then he experiences strange things happening which led him to a shrine. He opens something which led to more strange happenings. A rich man from a far neighbor asks him to paint his portrait but later on, just to be found with a hidden agenda. As the story goes, he was riddled with an entity, a manifestation of Idea. But the strangeness doesn't stop there. He is driven to solve a clue from a painting of the owner's house, the painting - Killing Commendatore.
At some point in the story where Menshiki asks to be left alone on an unknown shrine, It triggers my claustrophobia or fear of being in a small space, like in a dark cave. Imagine being left alone in an isolated place, inside a deep pit, dark, the only exit is far and beyond your reach.
Killing Commendatore is like a haunted "Alice in the Wonderland" plus Dante's Inferno, and some mixtures of World War II history. When I said 'haunted', I don't mean a perfect horror story but Haruki Murakami writing "Killing Commendatore" is very promising, and he could be a good Horror storyteller if he decides to write one.
What I like: the manifestation of Idea, the Double Metaphor, and the genius design of this US edition hardcover by Chip Kidd
What I didn't like: like with Haruki Murakami's other titles, he's leaving some event of the story with no explanation, I observe it his style.
I'm rating this book: 3.8 / 5.0
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Otakore Literantadodist
December 08, 2019
Some References:
- Killing Commendatore, wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Commendatore
- Claustrophobia, wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claustrophobia
- My Goodreads review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3076961810
