Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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Journey through loss, discovery, and human connections.

If you've ever felt adrift in your own life, as if the anchors of friendship and certainty have slipped away, Murakami's "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki" explores this terrain with a delicate mix of melancholy and mystery. There's something haunting about Tsukuru's quest to understand his past, and the narrative takes you deep into the intricacies of human relationships. This book isn’t just a story; it’s an experience, weaving the abstract and the concrete, the magical and the mundane, into a tapestry that might just resemble the complexities of your own life.

  • Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee (2015)
  • Bad Sex in Fiction Award Nominee (2014)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2014)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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ISBN: 9780099590378
Authors: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Date of Publication: 2015-07-02
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.87
(rated by 176220 readers)

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A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84. 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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Journey through loss, discovery, and human connections.

If you've ever felt adrift in your own life, as if the anchors of friendship and certainty have slipped away, Murakami's "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki" explores this terrain with a delicate mix of melancholy and mystery. There's something haunting about Tsukuru's quest to understand his past, and the narrative takes you deep into the intricacies of human relationships. This book isn’t just a story; it’s an experience, weaving the abstract and the concrete, the magical and the mundane, into a tapestry that might just resemble the complexities of your own life.

  • Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee (2015)
  • Bad Sex in Fiction Award Nominee (2014)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2014)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.