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Gatsby in Japan: Killing Commendatore, by Haruki Murakami, reviewed

20 October 2018

9:00 AM

20 October 2018

9:00 AM

Haruki Murakami’s Killing Commendatore was published in Japan in February last year. Early press releases for this English version hailed the book as ‘a tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art — as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby’. Anyone familiar with Murakami’s 17 preceding novels can vouch for love and loneliness as his great themes; and war, art and F.

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