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Killing commendatore a novel

The much-anticipated new 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 w...

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Main Author: Murakami, Haruki, 1949- (Author)
Other Authors: Gabriel, Philip, 1953- (Translator), Goossen, Ted (Translator), Heyborne, Kirby (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Japanese
Published: [Westminster, MD] : Books on Tape, [2018]
Edition: Unabridged.
Subjects:
Portrait painters > Fiction.
Painting, Japanese > Fiction.
Japanese fiction > Translations into English.
Psychological fiction.
Audiobooks.
Summary: The much-anticipated new 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.
Item Description: Title from web page.
Compact discs.
Translation of: Kishidanchò„ goroshi.
Physical Description: 23 audio discs (28 hr., 27 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time: 28:27:00
ISBN: 9780525525011
0525525017
Author Notes: Haruki Murakami was born on January 12, 1949 in Kyoto, Japan and studied at Tokyo's Waseda University. He opened a coffeehouse/jazz bar in the capital called Peter Cat with his wife. He became a full-time author following the publication of his first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, in 1979.

He writes both fiction and non-fiction works. His fiction works include Norwegian Wood, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, The Strange Library, and Men Without Women. Several of his stories have been adapted for the stage and as films. His nonfiction works include What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. He has received numerous literary awards including the Franz Kafka Prize for Kafka on the Shore, the Yomiuri Prize for The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and the Jerusalem Prize. He has translated into Japanese literature written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, Truman Capote, John Irving, and Paul Theroux.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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