Killing Commendatore

By Haruki Murakami

Book Overview

The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84

In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist's home, and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors. A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art--as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby--Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052552004X
• ISBN13: 9780525520047
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 704 Pages
• Weight: 2.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"