02080cam a2200349 i 4500 357990325 TxAuBib 20181018120000.0 180801s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018029615 9780525520047 30.00 052552004X 30.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda Murakami, Haruki, 1949- Kishi danch-goroshi English. Killing commendatore [BOOK] : a novel / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen. First U.S. edition. New York, NY : Knopf, 2018. 681 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Originally published in two volume 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" -- Verso title page. "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. 20181018. A single volume version of two books translated from the Japanese. Painting, Japanese Fiction. Portrait painters Fiction. Psychological fiction. Goossen, Ted. Gabriel, Philip, 1953-