| ISBN |
9781528821377 (sound media player) : |
| Auteur |
Murakami, Haruki, 1949- author. |
| Titre |
Killing Commendatore / Haruki Murakami ; narrated by Kirby Heyborne. |
| Édition |
Unabridged. |
| Published |
Rearsby, Leicester : W.F. Howes Ltd, [2018]. |
| Physical description |
1 pre-recorded MP3 player (approximately 28 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 9 x 6 cm. |
| General note |
Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. |
| Translated from the Japanese. |
| Performer note |
Narrated by Kirby Heyborne. |
| Summary |
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 strange 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.The much-anticipated novel from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of '1Q84' and 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage', 'Killing Commendatore' is an epic tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art - as well as a loving homage to 'The Great Gatsby' - and a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers. |
| Subject |
Painting, Japanese -- Fiction |
| Portrait painters -- Fiction |
| Audiobooks |
| Additional author |
Heyborne, Kirby narrator. |
