The protagonist of the two-volume story is a portrait painter in his thirties who, after his wife left him, suddenly finds himself in the mountain house of a famous painter. In the attic, he comes across a previously unknown picture, which unwittingly sets off a chain of mysterious events - it was revealed in the pages of the first volume of Ideas Becoming Visible. After following how he drifted into mysterious events and made connections with strange people, we learn from the second volume of the novel, Changing Metaphors, that he can only put an end to the disturbing events if he completes the more than strange tasks assigned to him.

Love and loneliness, art and war, joy and loss - these are all familiar themes of the world-famous Japanese artist Haruki Murakami, this time also presented according to his inexhaustibly rich imagination.

Author: Haruki Murakami