I still like Haruki Murakami: Killing Commendatore

Killing Commendatore, the latest novel by Haruki Murakami, was published last week. Despite many similarities to Murakami's earlier novels, the plot and characters surprised me as compelling and fascinating. The narrator (whose name we do not learn) is an ordinary man to whom out-of-the-ordinary things happen. Elements of magical realism are strong here: there are events that the reader is