“I’m a realistic person, a practical person, but when I write fiction I go to weird, secret places in myself,” says Haruki Murakami.Credit...Nathan Bajar for The New York Times The new novel by the great Japanese author Haruki Murakami, “Killing Commendatore” features (for a start) a mysterious bell that rings by itself; an abstract idea that steals the body of a two-foot-tall man in a painting; a
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