Description
The story follows an unnamed 30-something portrait painter whose wife suddenly leaves him. Devastated, he retreats to a remote mountain house belonging to the famous, ailing artist Tomohiko Amada. His quiet life of painting and whiskey is upended when he discovers a hidden masterpiece in the attic titled Killing Commendatore, which depicts a scene from Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni.
The discovery triggers a series of surreal events: a mysterious ringing bell in the woods, a physical manifestation of an “Idea” (the 2-foot-tall Commendatore himself), and an enigmatic, wealthy neighbor named Wataru Menshiki. To find a missing girl and confront his own past, the painter must navigate a metaphorical underworld and reenact the violence depicted in the painting. It is a classic Murakami journey where the boundaries between the mundane and the supernatural dissolve entirely.
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