Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Four school friends cut Tsukuru Tazaki off without explanation, and years later, settled into work building railway stations, he sets out to learn why. Haruki Murakami keeps this novel quieter than his longer fantasias, staying with one man's memory, his work, and the conversations that carry him from Nagoya to Finland. The translated English text holds Murakami's plain, exact sentences, and the interest lies in friendship, exclusion and the long half-life of an unexplained hurt rather than in any sudden revelation. How readers use it: • A self-contained Murakami novel that needs no prior reading • A restrained story of friendship, memory and adult reckoning • Japanese and Finnish settings rendered in spare, readable English • A frequent starting point for readers new to the author Well suited to literary fiction readers, book clubs and newcomers to Murakami, available from Boipoka.