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Author:

Murakami, Haruki, 1949- author.

Title:

Killing commendatore : a novel / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen.

Publisher:

Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

681 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Portrait painters--Fiction.
Painting, Japanese--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.

Other Authors:

Gabriel, Philip, 1953- translator.
Goossen, Ted, translator.

Other Titles:

Kishi danchō-goroshi. English

Summary:

A painter retreats into a solitary house in the Japanese mountains to rethink his life after his wife deserts him. Another painter, Amada, used to live in the lonely house and hid the mysterious painting "Killing Commendatore" in the attic. Now the narrator must confront a mysterious ringing bell, a physical manifestation of an Idea, a precocious teenage girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors-- while searching for an understanding of the nature of art. -- adapted from jacket

ISBN:

052543576X
9780525435761
052552004X
9780525520047

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1048027737

LCCN:

2018029615

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