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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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by Haruki Murakami
Hardback
Publication Date: 12/08/2014
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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.

The first print run of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage included a sticker set - please note that this first print run is no longer available and therefore this book no longer comes with stickers.

ISBN:
9781846558337
9781846558337
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
12-08-2014
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
304
Dimensions (mm):
240x162x30mm
Weight:
0.59kg
Haruki Murakami

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers’ award and was published the following year.

More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, which turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. His books became bestsellers, were translated into many languages, including English, and the door was thrown wide open to Murakami’s unique and addictive fictional universe.

Murakami writes with admirable discipline, producing ten pages a day, after which he runs ten kilometres (he began long-distance running in 1982 and has participated in numerous marathons and races), works on translations, and then reads, listens to records and cooks. His passions colour his non-fiction output, from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running to Absolutely On Music, and they also seep into his novels and short stories, providing quotidian moments in his otherwise freewheeling flights of imaginative inquiry.

In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84 and Men Without Women, his distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring Murakami’s place as one of the world’s most acclaimed and well-loved writers.

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This feels like every other Murakami novel, which is far from a bad thing. This time his calm prose is used to display Tsukuru Tazaki as he tries to understand why his close friends abandoned him many years ago.

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It's Murakami, so I stayed up late to finish it. Well-written, interesting, but definitely not his best work. The main character is a bit useless, and the plot hinges on some particularly stupid choices made by the characters. Maybe read "Kafka on the Shore", or "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman", if you're looking for a better example of what he's capable of.

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Murakami is such a beautiful writer that if he wrote a shopping list I'd probably hang off every word. Any fan of Murakami will love the picture he paints of Tsukuru and his four friends. A powerful story of regrets and friendship, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki is one of Murakami's more 'normal' novels (no surrealism to be seen) so it's a great one for anyone yet to read a Huruki Murakami. Do yourself a favour!

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