FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, OCTOBER 2019
English translation copyright © 2018 by Haruki Murakami
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in Japan in two volumes, titled Kishidanchō-goroshi: Dai-ichi-bu, Arawareru idea hen and Kishidanchō-goroshi: Dai-ni-bu, Utsurou metafā hen , by Shinchōsha Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, in 2017. Copyright © 2017 by Haruki Murakami. 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.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny for permission to reprint an excerpt from Revolt in Treblinka by Samuel Willenberg, copyright © 1984 by Samuel Willenberg.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Names: Murakami, Haruki, 1949– author. | Gabriel, Philip, 1953– translator. |
Goossen, Ted, translator.
Title: Killing commendatore / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the
Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen.
Other titles: Kishidanchō-goroshi. English.
Description: First United States edition. New York : Knopf, 2018. | “Originally published in Japan as KISHIDANCHŌ-GOROSHI DAI-ICHI-BU ARAWARERU IDEA HEN and KISHIDANCHŌ-GOROSHI DAI-NI-BU UTSUROU METAFĀ HEN by SHINCHŌSHA Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo in 2017”—Verso title page. | A single volume version of two books translated from the Japanese.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018029615 (print) | LCCN 2018037138 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Portrait painters—Fiction. | Painting, Japanese—Fiction. | Psychological fiction. | Fantasy fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Historical.
Classification: LCC PL856.U673 (ebook) | LCC PL856.U673 K5713 2018 (print) |
DC 895.63/5—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018029615
Vintage International Trade Paperback ISBN 9780525435761
Ebook ISBN 9780525520054
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