Killing commendatore
(Book)

"Originally published in two volume in Japan as Kishidancho-goroshi dai-ichi-bu arawareru idea hen and Kishidancho-goroshi dai-ni-bu utsurou metafua hen by Shinchosha Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo in 2017" -- Verso title page.

"This translation originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2018"--Title page verso.

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 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.

In English, translated from the Japanese.