A Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times, Library Journal, LitHub, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
"Exhilarating ... magical." --The Washington Post
"Some novelists hold a mirror up to the world and some, like Haruki Murakami, use the mirror as a portal to a universe hidden beyond it." --The Wall Street Journal
"[Murakami] is as masterful as ever." --Houston Chronicle
"A spellbinding parable of art, history, and human loneliness." --O, The Oprah Magazine
"The product of a singular imagination." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Expansive and intricate." --The New York Times
"Beguiling. . . . Murakami is brilliant." --The Guardian
"Dazzling. . . . [Murakami] reveals how an artist sees the world." --Entertainment Weekly
"[A] sprawling, uncanny epic. . . . A time-traveling tale of loss, longing, and the creation of art--with an ample dash of Murakami's trademark deadpan humor." --Vanity Fair
"A perfect balance of tradition and individual talent. . . . Murakami dancing along 'the inky blackness of the Path of Metaphor' is like Fred Astaire dancing across a floor, then up the walls and onto the ceiling." --The Spectator
"A surreal, world-altering epic punctuated by art, literature and history." --Time
"[Murakami] once more explicates the seemingly impossible with such thorough, exacting conviction to make believers of us all." --The Christian Science Monitor
"No other author mixes domestic, fantastic and esoteric elements into such weirdly bewitching shades. . . . Just as [Murakami] straddles barriers dividing high art from mass entertainment, so he suspends borders between east and west." --Financial Times
"[Killing Commendatore] marks the return of a master." --Esquire
"The complex landscape that Murakami assembles in Killing Commendatore is a word portrait of the artist's inner life." --The Times Literary Supplement
"Fascinating. . . . Drawing on Buddhist spiritualism, metaphysics and magical realism--not to mention Lewis Carroll--Killing Commendatore finds its narrator enmeshed in a singular philosophic adventure." --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Enthralling." --Forward
"Murakami beautifully captures the evanescence of inspiration." --Vulture
"Its size, beauty, and concerns with lust and war bring us back to the vividness and scale of [Murakami's] 1997 epic, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.'' --The Boston Globe
"Lovely and strange." --Bustle
"Wild, thrilling. . . . Murakami is a master storyteller and he knows how to keep us hooked. . . . What makes his voice so distinctive, and so captivating, is the mix of precise observation, clarity and deadpan humour." --The Sunday Times (London)
