The major new novel from internationally celebrated writer Haruki Murakami, on the scale of his bestselling 1Q84. The painter's wife has left him for a younger man. Looking after the empty house of a famous artist, he finds a carefully wrapped canvas labelled "Killing Commendatore". This unusual painting leads him to embark on a quest that will lead him back to a tragedy in his own past. Ambitious, haunting, multi-layered and brilliant.