Killing Commendatore, Hardcover

Contributor(s):

• Author: Haruki Murakami
• Translator: Philip Gabriel
• Translator: Ted Goossen

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.
 
Review citations

• Library Journal Prepub Alert - pg. 57 - 06/01/2018
• Booklist / Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended - pg. 22 - 10/15/2018
• Booklist / Exceptional Presentation - pg. 22 - 10/15/2018
• Booklist / Book Of Special Distinction - pg. 22 - 10/15/2018
• Booklist / Top 15 Book Of The Year - pg. 22 - 10/15/2018
• Booklist / Highly Recommended - pg. 22 - 10/15/2018
• Kirkus Reviews - 08/01/2018
• Publishers Weekly - 08/13/2018
• Publishers Weekly - pg. 88 - 08/27/2018
• Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview - pg. 19 - 08/15/2018
• BookPage - 10/01/2018
• Library Journal - pg. 56 - 10/15/2018