Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki

and His Years of Pilgrimage

Hardcover, 298 pages

English language

Published Jan. 5, 2014 by Harvill Secker.

ISBN:
978-1-84655-833-7
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OCLC Number:
881024398

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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.

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Einsamer Mann versucht seine Vergangenheit aufzuarbeiten, weil eine Frau ihm gesagt hat, dass er das machen muss.

Content warning Dieses Buch ist Mist und ich erkläre an einem Beispiel warum. Dabei benenne ich die Entwicklung eines Erzählstrangs. Aber das große Geheimnis dieser Geschichte spreche ich nicht an.

He ignores so many pieces of his own plot.

Content warning Some mentions of homophobia and sex.

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Tsukuru Tazaki was lucky enough to have four close friends in high school. They were a tight knit group and they all shared their hopes and dreams with each other. When it came to college Tsukuru went off to Tokyo to pursue his dream career while the others remained in Nagoya at various schools. They vowed to remain close and Tsukuru made an effort to visit as much as possible. That was until one day Tsukuru was told that the other four wanted nothing to do with him anymore.

I am not going to go too much into the plot; I think this is something that needs to be discovered within the book. However I do need to talk a little about it. Tsukuru Tazaki had always felt like an outsider, even though he was accepted into the group for a while. He was always colourless in a group of …

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Subjects

  • Self-realization
  • Japanese fiction
  • Translations into English
  • Locomotive engineers
  • Fiction
  • Voyages and travels
  • Friendship
  • Identity (Psychology)

Places

  • Europe
  • Japan