Murakami Haruki - A kormányzó halála - First book

The protagonist of the story is a portrait painter in his thirties, who, after his wife left him, suddenly finds himself in the mountain house of a famous painter. In the attic, he finds a previously unknown picture, which unwittingly sets off a chain of mysterious events. You can only end this by completing certain, more than strange tasks. Love and loneliness, art and war, joy and loss - all the familiar themes of the world-famous Japanese, this time again served up in accordance with Murakami's inexhaustibly rich imagination. Like the Japanese edition, it is published in two volumes. The title of the second volume: Changing Metaphors.