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Killing commendatore, Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen

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Killing commendatore

Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen

"The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Killing Commendatore is an epic tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art--as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby--and a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers"--, Provided by publisher"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. 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." -- Publisher's description