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Shikisai O Motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to Kare No Junrei No Toshi

Shikisai O Motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to Kare No Junrei No Toshi

by Haruki Murakami
Hardback
Publication Date: 12/04/2013

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Murakami Haruki's new novel, 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage', is an instant bestseller in Japan. At the age of 36, Tazaki Tsukuru looks back at his life and his four friends at college, each named after a color. His own name meaning "colorless," he has lived a dull life, and now he constantly contemplates dying while still alive. When he meets a woman, he begins to explore his feelings of rejection. World renowned author Murakami Haruki's latest novel. In Japanese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
ISBN:
9784163821108
9784163821108
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
12-04-2013
Language:
English, Japanese
Publisher:
Bungeishunju/Tsai Fong Books
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
370
Dimensions (mm):
191x137x25mm
Weight:
0.39kg
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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