Killing Commendatore
Haruki Murakami$25.50
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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 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.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 10/09/2018
ISBN: 9780525520047
Pages: 704
Weight: 2.26lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.80d
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2018 pg. 57
Booklist 10/15/2018 pg. 22
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2018
Publishers Weekly 08/13/2018
Publishers Weekly 08/27/2018 pg. 88
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2018 pg. 19
BookPage 10/01/2018
Library Journal 10/15/2018 pg. 56
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.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 10/09/2018
ISBN: 9780525520047
Pages: 704
Weight: 2.26lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.80d
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2018 pg. 57
Booklist 10/15/2018 pg. 22
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2018
Publishers Weekly 08/13/2018
Publishers Weekly 08/27/2018 pg. 88
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2018 pg. 19
BookPage 10/01/2018
Library Journal 10/15/2018 pg. 56