{"product_id":"9780385690713","title":"Killing Commendatore","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn epic novel from the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003e1Q84\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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—as well as a loving homage to \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby—Killing Commendatore\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":47299958964463,"sku":"9780385690713","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0559\/3877\/7237\/files\/BNCImageAPI_745b7c86-1c74-4189-822b-f4cbb0a83cd9.jpg?v=1765906101","url":"https:\/\/www.entershinebookshop.ca\/products\/9780385690713","provider":"Entershine Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}