Killing Commendatore

Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami is a rich, immersive novel that returns to the territory of his most celebrated work — a story of art, memory, desire, and the mysterious forces that shape a life. A portrait painter, recently separated from his wife, retreats to a house in the mountains that once belonged to a celebrated Japanese painter. There he discovers a hidden painting and, through it, enters a world where the boundary between reality and imagination dissolves. Murakami draws on Japanese history, Western classical music, and the traditions of Japanese painting to create a novel of extraordinary texture and depth. At nearly 700 pages, Killing Commendatore is both ambitious and immersive — the work of a writer who has earned the right to demand the reader’s full attention and who delivers in return a reading experience unlike anything else. Published by Harvill Secker.