Celebrate Murakami's Latest with Breakfast at A Cappella
Updated October 8, 2018: our Murakami breakfast is now sold out. Please stop by the store during regular business hours to buy your copy of "Killing Commendatore."
Rise and shine with your friends at A Cappella Books, where, for those of you who don't want to wait a minute longer than necessary to get your hands on the latest novel from Haruki Murakami, we will be up with the rising sun with copies of "Killing Commendatore" on its release day.
Our resident Murakami aficionado and culinary explorer Chris Buxbaum will be serving a traditional Japanese breakfast to the sounds of his personally curated Murakami-inspired playlist on our shady back patio.
Your pre-order of the book is good not only for your RSVP to our early morning festivities, but will be good for some excellent Murakami swag, courtesy of his American publisher, Penguin Random House.
About the Book
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 thirteen-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.
About the Author
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than 50 languages, and the most recent of his many international honors is the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award, whose previous recipients include J. K. Rowling, Isabel Allende, and Salman Rushdie. Translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen.
