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Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
5.0

I think this might be my second favourite Murakami novel to date, following After Dark. Everything is so exquisitely written. Leaving my favourite quote here (best understood with context but still beautiful without):

It is through the subtle and unending oscillation between those two poles that he seeks to find the meaning of his own existence. I have no such need, though, to challenge my life in such a troublesome (or, at the least, unnatural) way. That is because I am endowed with the capacity to believe. I believe in all honesty that something will appear to guide me through the darkest and narrowest tunnel, or across the most desolate plain