Anne Margaret Daniel

Jay for Japan

Murakami’s observant narrator recalls Nick Carraway, while wealthy Menshiki, in his shining villa across the valley, mirrors Gatsby

issue 20 October 2018

Haruki Murakami’s Killing Commendatore was published in Japan in February last year. Early press releases for this English version hailed the book as ‘a tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art — as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby’. Anyone familiar with Murakami’s 17 preceding novels can vouch for love and loneliness as his great themes; and war, art and F.

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