Killing Commendatore

The epic new novel from the internationally celebrated and bestselling author of 1Q84.

In Killing Commendatore, a portrait painter in his thirties is left by his wife in Tokyo and finds himself in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers an unseen painting in the attic, he inadvertently opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close this circle, he must embark on a journey that includes a mysteriously sounding bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an idea, an elegant businessman living in the valley across, a bright thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist's house, and an underworld haunted by double metaphors. A masterpiece of love and loneliness, war and art, and a loving homage to The Great Gatsby, Killing Commendatore is a breathtaking work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.