"Originally published in Japan in two volumes titled Kishidanchò„-goroshi: Dai-ichi-bu, Arawareru idea hen and Kishidanchò„-goroshi: Dai-ni-bu, Utsurou metafa hen by SHINCHOSHA Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo in 2017"--Title page verso.
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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