| Killing Commendatore Contributor(s): Murakami, Haruki (Author) |
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ISBN: 052552004X ISBN-13: 9780525520047 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $27.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Magical Realism - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: 895.635 |
| LCCN: 2018029615 |
| Physical Information: 1.8" H x 6.4" W x 9.3" (2.26 lbs) 704 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84 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. |