This is only the second novel I’ve read by Haruki Murakami. And so he goes on a pilgrimage to track down those friends and discover the truth. She won’t commit to a relationship with Tsukuru unless he can move past that issue. Now sixteen years later his new girlfriend, Sara Kimoto, encourages him to come face-to-face with the past, to seek out his former friends to mend the relationships and discover why they rejected him. The ostracism left him feeling suicidal, then guilty “as an empty person, lacking in colour and identity.” Quest For Truth Until one day during Tsukuru’s second year in college when those friends abruptly cut all relationships with him. They did everything together, wanting no other friends to disturb their harmony. In his high school years, he had been part of a close-knit quintet an “orderly, harmonious community” of two girls, three boys. … a container that for the sake of convenience was labelled with the same name – but its contents had been replaced. He feels as if the real Tsukuru Tazaki passed away years earlier, leaving only a shell: He has no friends and all his relationships with women have come to nothing. After work he retreats either to a train station or to his apartment where he listens to music. He can sit for hours in a station watching the ebb and flow of passengers and the rhythm of train arrivals and departures. Tsukuru Tazaki is a 36-year-old railway engineer with an abiding passion for train stations. Harvill Secker said that, including ebooks and overseas sales, it had sold just over 400,000 copies of Murakami's epic 2011 romance 1Q84 Books One ,Two and Three.The character in question is a young man whose life is haunted by a great loss in his adolescent years.

Murakami's UK publisher, Liz Foley at Harvill Secker, predicted the novel would ' inspire a whole new raft of fans for his work'.Īccording to the Bookseller, Murakami's previous novels – including Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – have sold almost one-and-a-half million copies in the UK, with Norwegian Wood the most popular. '1Q84 was much more epic in scope, while Tsukuru Tazaki is more lapidary, more tightly focused on one person's journey,' he said. It is, translator Gabriel told the Australian last year, 'more tightly focused' than previous books by the author. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the story of a man whose four best high school friends, Mr Red, Mr Blue, Miss White and Miss Black, ostracise him - he is colourless, because his name is the only one without a kanji symbol for a colour.

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