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Killing commendatore : a novel / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen.
In 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 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. A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art--as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby--Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525520047
- ISBN: 052552004X
- ISBN: 9780525435761
- ISBN: 052543576X
- Physical Description: 681 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First United States Edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Knopf, 2018.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Originally published in Japan as KISHIDANCHO-GOROSHI DAI-ICHI-BU ARAWARERU IDEA HEN and KISHIDANCHO-GOROSHI DAI-NI-BU UTSUROU METAFUA HEN by SHINCHOSHA Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo in 2017" -- Verso title page. |
| Language Note: | A single volume version of two books translated from the Japanese. |
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| Subject: | Portrait painters > Fiction. Painting, Japanese > Fiction. FICTION / Literary. FICTION / Historical. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. Fantasy fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Southern Wasco County Library | MURA (Text) | 33892005847059 | FICTION | Available | - |
