Bibliograph

Killing commendatore, a novel, Haruki Murakami ; [translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen]

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Label

Killing commendatore, a novel, Haruki Murakami ; [translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen]

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Killing commendatore

Oclc number

1050448570

Responsibility statement

Haruki Murakami ; [translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen]

Sub title

a novel

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. A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art

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