The Assassination of the Commendatore Volume I

The first part of Haruki Murakami's great two-volume work After separating from his wife, a successful painter gives up his work - until a rich man asks him to make a painting of him. But the artist cannot capture the face of the stranger. Who is this man? By chance, the painter discovers a painting in the attic entitled The Assassination of the Commendatore. He becomes obsessed with the painting, and as he finds it, strange things begin to happen around him, as if another world is opening up. Should he confide in the man? Like no other, Haruki Murakami knows how to create parallel worlds and blur the boundaries between them and the reality we know.