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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 strange 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.
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Killing Commendatore, Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel, Ted Goossen
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- Released
- 2018
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- Title
- Killing Commendatore
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel, Ted Goossen
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker
- Released
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 1787300196
- ISBN13
- 9781787300194
- Tags
- Fiction, Fantasy, Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction, Japan, Asia, Japanese Literature, Magical Realism, Painting (art)
- First published
- 2017
- Original title
- 騎士団長殺し Kišidančo goroši
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- 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 strange 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.