A painter with a rare gift for capturing the secrets concealed behind the faces of his subjects. A disquieting painting, the work of a master artist, discovered decades later in a house’s attic. A stirring presence within a forest, surrounded by eccentric neighbors. And then there is a bell, its tolling both majestic and mournful, drifting through the trees in the dead of night. A novel about the constructive power of art and the destructive force of violence; about the capacity to transmute our fragility into gold, no matter how bleak our days may seem. "As always, Murakami enchants us by revealing the extraordinary within our own monotony, finding magic in the details of our everyday lives." *The Guardian*. "In *Killing Commendatore*, Murakami’s genius moves with exquisite grace between reality and delirium." *Der Spiegel*.