TY - BOOK AU - Murakami,Haruki AU - Philip Gabriel (tr.) TI - KILLING COMMENDATORE SN - 9781787300194 U1 - F PY - 2018////01/01 CY - London PB - Harvill Secker KW - Fiction KW - Portrait painters -- Fiction KW - Painting, Japanese -- Fiction KW - Large type books KW - translated from the Japanese N1 - Summary: 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. ; SHORT STORIES & ANTHOLOGIES / CONTEMPORARY FICTION ER -