Killing Commendatore

The massive new book from the well renowned and best-selling author of 1Q84

In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something Tokyo portrait painter finds himself holed up in the mountainside home of renowned artist Tomohiko Amada after his wife abandons him. In the attic, he stumbles across a picture that has never been seen before, which sets off a series of enigmatic events. A dizzying two-foot-tall physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman across the valley, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt in Vienna during World War II, a pit in the woods behind the artist's house, and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors are all part of the journey he must undertake to close it. A magnificent work of imagination from one of our finest authors, Killing Commendatore is a tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art, as well as a passionate ode to The Great Gatsby.