Killing commendatore
Subtitle: a novel
By: Haruki Murakami ; [translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen]
Contributors: Gabriel, Philip, 1953- translator; Goossen, Ted, translator
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 979
ISBN-13: 9781984891907
Subjects: Large type books; Portrait painters; Japanese Painting; Fiction
Work titles: Kishi danchō-goroshi
Description: 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.