Has Haruki Murakami Written His First Jewish Novel? Kind Of.
Killing Commendatore By Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen Alfred A. Knopf, 704 pages, $30 Around the time of the Anschluss, the 1938 Nazi takeover of Austria, a famous Japanese painter living in Vienna is entangled in an abortive assassination plot. His girlfriend, a resistance member, is captured, tortured and killed by…