Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Author(s): Haruki Murakami

Fiction

Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning 'red pine', and Oumi, 'blue sea', while the girls' names were Shirane, 'white root', and Kurono, 'black field'. Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it. One day Tsukuru Tazaki's friends announced that they didn't want to see him, or talk to him, ever again. Since that day Tsukuru has been floating through life, unable to form intimate connections with anyone. But then he meets Sara, who tells him that the time has come to find out what happened all those years ago.


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The new international bestseller from the author of 1Q84, Norwegian Wood and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

Short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015.

"Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers ... But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves." New York Times Book Review "The best novelist on the planet" Observer

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. He is the author of many novels as well as short stories and non-fiction. His works include Norwegian Wood, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, After Dark, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, and 1Q84. His work has been translated into more than forty languages, and the most recent of his many international honours is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J.M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V.S. Naipaul.

General Fields

  • : 9781846558337
  • : Vintage Publishing
  • : Harvill Secker
  • : 0.606
  • : June 2013
  • : 240mm X 156mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Haruki Murakami
  • : Hardback
  • : English
  • : 895.636
  • : 240