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.
