Vintage Books

Killing Commendatore: A Novel

$18.00

Vintage Books

Killing Commendatore: A Novel

$18.00
  • Description

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 GatsbyKilling Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.

Author: Haruki Murakami
Translators: Philip Gabriel / Ted Goossen
Publisher: Vintage Books
Page Count: 752pp
Size: 5 x 8
Notes: paperback
Date of Publication: October 1, 2019
ISBN: 978-0525435761