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Murakami, Haruki 1949-

Killing commendatore : a novel / Haruki Murakami ; [translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen]. - [New York, N.Y.] : Random House Large Print, [2018] - 992 pages (large print) ; 24 cm

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.

ISBN: 9781984891907 1984891901

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Portrait painters--Fiction.
Painting, Japanese--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Psychological fiction.
Large type books.

LC Class. No.: PL856.U673 / K5713 2018b

Dewey Class. No.: 895.63/5