The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling 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 13-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.

Audiobook available, read by Kirby Heyborne