Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami

We all live our lives carrying secrets we cannot disclose. Beguiling... Murakami is brilliant at folding the humdrum alongside the supernatural finding the magic thats nested in lifes quotidian details Guardian When a thirtysomething portrait painter is abandoned by his wife he holes up in the mountain home of a famous artist. The days drift by spent painting listening to music and drinking whiskey in the evenings. But then he discovers a strange painting in the attic and unintentionally begins Paperback softback