Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
By: by Haruki Murakami
Contributors: Gabriel, Philip, 1953- translator
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: jpn
Translation of: 色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年 [Shikisai o motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to, kare no junrei no toshi]
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781846558337
Subjects: Self-realization; Japanese fiction; Translations into English; Locomotive engineers; Fiction; Voyages and travels; Friendship; Identity (Psychology)
Other titles: 色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年 [Shikisai o motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to, kare no junrei no toshi]
Description: 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.
Notes: Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.

Originally published with the title 'Shikisai o Motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to, Kare no Junrei no Toshi' in 2013.

Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.