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Haruki Murakami’s hotly anticipated new novel, Killing Commendatore, is a stunning work of imagination, a tour de force of love, loneliness, war and art, as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby. The epic novel unfolds with a 30-something portrait painter in Tokyo who is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen 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. Join us for a discussion of the book and all things Murakami with BFM89.9 presenter Umapagan Ampikaipakan, Lit Books proprietor Fong Min Hun and Murakami buff Tay Cher Siang. Admission is RM15, which entitles you to: • RM20 off the hard cover edition of Murakami's book• A chance to win Lit Books vouchers and goodie bag