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Killing Commendatore  Cover Image Book Book

Killing Commendatore / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen.

Murakami, Haruki, 1949- (author.). Gabriel, Philip, 1953- (translator.). Goossen, Ted, (translator.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780525520047
  • ISBN: 052552004X
  • ISBN: 9780525435761
  • ISBN: 052543576X
  • Physical Description: 681 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First United States edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.

Content descriptions

General Note:
A single volume version of two books translated from the Japanese.
"Originally published in Japan as KISHIDANCHO-GOROSHI DAI-ICHI-BU ARAWARERU IDEA HEN and KISHIDANCHO-GOROSHI DAI-NI-BU UTSUROU METAFUA HEN by SHINCHOSHA Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo in 2017"--Title page verso.
Language Note:
A single volume version of two books translated from the Japanese.
Subject: Portrait painters > Fiction.
Painting, Japanese > Fiction.
Genre: Psychological fiction.
Magic realist fiction.
Fantasy fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Blair County Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Altoona Area Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Altoona Area Public Library F MUR (Text) 33240004496363 Adult Fiction Available -


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