Name: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage By Philip Gabriel
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Summary

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Philip Gabriel

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.

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Reviews

A naturalistic coming-of-age story... sprinkled with strange images and written in a hauntingly mournful key * Guardian *
[Murakmi's] elegant, frugal prose creates a tale of courage and hope as Tsukuru tries to unlock the secrets of his past * Stylist *
Critics have variously likened Murakami to Raymond Carver, Raymond Chandler, Arthur C Clarke, Don DeLillo, Philip K Dick, Bret Easton Ellis and Thomas Pynchon - a roster so ill-assorted to suggest he is in fact an original * New York Times *
A rich and even brilliant piece of work... Genuinely resonant and satisfying -- James Walton * Spectator *
This is a book for both the new and experienced reader....[it] reveals another side of Murakami, one not so easy to pin down. Incurably restive, ambiguous and valiantly struggling toward a new level of maturation -- Patti Smith * New York Times *

About Philip Gabriel

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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GOR006801811

ISBN 13

9780099590378

ISBN 10

0099590379

Title

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Philip Gabriel

Author

Philip Gabriel

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

2015-05-01

Number of pages

304

Prizes

Long-listed for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015 (UK) Long-listed for I.M.P.A.C. Dublin Award 2016 (UK)

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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Philip Gabriel

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Philip Gabriel

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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Philip Gabriel

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