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• Title:[ Kishi danchō-goroshi. English]
  [騎士団長殺し. English]
  Killing commendatore / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen.
  
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• Author/Creator: Murakami, Haruki, 1949- author.
  村上春樹, 1949- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Gabriel, Philip, 1953- translator.
  Goossen, Ted, translator.
  
• Published/Created:[Toronto, Ont.] : Bond Street Books, Doubleday Canada [2018]
  ©2018
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PL856.U673 K5713 2018a
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Portrait painters--Fiction.
  Painting, Japanese--Fiction.
  
• Genre/Form:Psychological fiction.
  Fantasy fiction.
  
• Description:681 pages ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:An unnamed thirty-something portrait painter, abandoned by his wife, becomes caretaker of the home of an aging famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When the younger man discovers an unknown painting in the attic, entitled "Killing Commendatore"--A painting that takes its cues from Mozart's opera Don Giovanni--he also discovers clues about Amada, his family and their involvement in a violent and failed plot to kill a Nazi leader in Vienna. As the painter slowly learns the truth, he is equally consumed by the story of a wealthy and mysterious neighbor, Menshiki, in what is, according to the author, a clear homage to The Great Gatsby. The painter becomes obsessed with Menshiki's doomed love affair, the young girl who might be his child and a stone-lined underground space in the nearby woods where Buddhist priests were once buried alive. This pit becomes a portal into another world, a surreal place where the figures from "Killing Commendatore" take form to guide our narrator on an epic journey
  
• Notes:"Originally published in Japan in tow volumes, titled Kishidancho goroshi: Dai ichi-bu, Arawareru idea hen and Kishidancho-goroshi: Dai ni-bu, Utsurou metafa hen by Shinchosha Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo in 2017"-- Copyright page.
  
• ISBN:9780385690690 (hardcover)
  038569069X (hardcover)