Killing Commendatore
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525520047
- ISBN: 052552004X
- ISBN: 9780525435761
- ISBN: 052543576X
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Physical Description:
681 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First United States edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
- Copyright: ©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. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Painting, Japanese Fiction Portrait painters 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.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Altoona Area Public Library | F MUR (Text) | 33240004496363 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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.