Killing Commendatore
A thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a …
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- Full title :Killing Commendatore / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen.
Summary
A thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist's home, and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors.
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- Publication Date:2018
- Edition:First United States edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2018
Notes
A single volume version of two books translated from the Japanese.
"Originally published in Japan as Kishi danch o-goroshi Dai 1-bu, Arawareru idea-hen and Kishi danch o-goroshi Dai 2-bu, Utsur o metaf a-hen by Shinchosha Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo in 2017"--Title page verso.
The Physical Object
- Description:681 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780525520047, 052552004X, 9780525435761, 052543576X
- oclc:on1156789366
- LC Classification:PL856.U673
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