Killing commendatore : a novel / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen.
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 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525525004
- ISBN: 0525525009
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (28 hr., 39 min., 33 sec.)) : digital.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Audio, 2018.
Content descriptions
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Kirby Heyborne. |
Source of Description Note: | Hard copy version record. |
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Subject: | Portrait painters > Fiction. Painting, Japanese > Fiction. FICTION / Literary. FICTION / Magical Realism. FICTION / Historical. Painting, Japanese. Portrait painters. |
Genre: | Magic realist fiction. Psychological fiction. Fiction. Psychological fiction. Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |