La mort del comanador

In this second volume, Murakami collects all the threads he has unfolded in the first book to weave a splendid mosaic, full of mystery and subtleties about the human condition, with an ending that will not disappoint anyone. In the first part, a portraitist abandoned by the woman hoped to calm down and rediscover himself and his inspiration in the house of a famous retired painter, Tomohiko Amada. But what has happened is that he has been immersed in a world full of riddles and strange facts. The sound of a bell keeps him awake at midnight, there is a mysterious power in a strange hole in the middle of the forest, it seems that an invisible hand moves the objects of the house... The painting "The death of the commander" seems to it has the key to it all. But first of all, our portrait painter needs to know more about the great Amada, what exactly happened to him when he was studying in Vienna in the late 1930s? Meanwhile, our painter manages to advance in his new own style of painting, this time making the portrait of Marie, an intelligent and reserved thirteen-year-old girl whom he sees every Sunday morning until he disappears without a trace. And he, anguished by the disappearance and with the intuition that something very strange has happened to him, decides to do whatever it takes to find her.