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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

  • 3.69 ·
  • 35 Ratings
  • 72 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 40 Have read

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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Harvill Secker
Language
English
Pages
298

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Cover of: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
May 05, 2015, Anchor Canada
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Cover of: Colorless tsukuru tazaki and his years of pilgrimage
Colorless tsukuru tazaki and his years of pilgrimage
2014, Alfred A. Knopf
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage A Novel
2014, Knopf, Alfred A. Knopf
Cover of: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
2014, Harvill Secker
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Cover of: Los años de peregrinación del chico sin color
Los años de peregrinación del chico sin color
2013, Tusquets

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Edition 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.

Published in
London
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]
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]
Translated From
Japanese

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
895.636
Library of Congress
PL856.U673 C65 2014 fic, PL856.U673

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
298 pages
Number of pages
298

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28422117M
Internet Archive
colorlesstsukuru0000mura_a1d0
ISBN 10
1846558336
ISBN 13
9781846558337
OCLC/WorldCat
881024398

Work Description

Tsukuru Tazaki reexamines his simple life as he searches for his closest high school friends to discover why he was suddenly ostracized from their group.

"Cuando Tsukuru Tazakiera adolescente, se sentaba durante horas en las estaciones para ver pasar los trenes. Ahora, con treinta y seis años, es un ingeniero que diseña y construye estaciones de ferrocarril y que lleva una vida tranquila, tal vez demasiado solitaria. Cuando conoce a Sara, una mujer por la que se siente atraído, empieza a plantearse cuestiones que creía definitivamente zanjadas. Entre otras, un traumático episodio de su juventud: cuando iba a la universidad, el que fue su grupo de amigos desde la adolescencia cortó bruscamente, sin dar explicaciones, toda relación con él, y la experiencia fue tan dolorosa que Tsukuru incluso acarició la idea del suicidio. Ahora, dieciséis años despuís, quizá logre averiguar qué sucedió exactamente. Ecos del pasado y del presente, pianistas capaces de predecir la muerte y de ver el color de las personas, manos de seis dedos, sueños perturbadores, muchachas frágiles y muertes que suscitan interrogantes componen el paisaje, pautado por las notas de Los años de peregrinaciónde Liszt, por el que Tsukuru viajará en busca de sentimientos largo tiempo ocultos. Decididamente, le ha llegado la hora de subirse a un tren."--P. [4] of cover.

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