Killing Commendatore / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen.

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Murakami, Haruki [author.]

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Material type: Text

TextDescription: 681 pages ; 20 cmISBN:

9781784707330

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DDC classification:

895.635 MUR

Summary: A novel by Haruki Murakami that follows a portrait painter whose life is disrupted after his wife announces she wants a divorce. He retreats to a remote mountain house where he discovers a hidden painting titled *Killing Commendatore*, triggering a series of surreal and symbolic events that blur reality, memory, and imagination. The story explores themes of art, loneliness, love, war, and metaphysical mystery, in a narrative that pays homage to *The Great Gatsby*.

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A novel by Haruki Murakami that follows a portrait painter whose life is disrupted after his wife announces she wants a divorce. He retreats to a remote mountain house where he discovers a hidden painting titled *Killing Commendatore*, triggering a series of surreal and symbolic events that blur reality, memory, and imagination. The story explores themes of art, loneliness, love, war, and metaphysical mystery, in a narrative that pays homage to *The Great Gatsby*.

A single volume version of two books translated from the Japanese.

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Killing Commendatore / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen.