Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
by Haruki Murakami
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Pub Date Aug 12 2014 | Archive Date Aug 05 2014
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Vintage Digital
Description
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.
A Note From the Publisher
UK edition – available to read in UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada.
Advance Praise
'Murakami is like a magician who explains what he’s doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers . . . But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves.' New York Times Book Review
Marketing Plan
INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING EVENT: Readers around the world have been eagerly
anticipating Murakami's next book since the English-language publication of his best-selling
epic, 1Q84, in 2011. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage was published to
great acclaim in Japan in April 2013, selling one million copies in the first week.
A RETURN IN STYLE: The new novel is a return to the lyrical realism that Murakami made famous in his 1987 novel Norwegian Wood, but set against the social realities of contemporary Japan.
MORE MURAKAMI: Harvill Secker will be publishing an illustrated Murakami story THE STRANGE LIBRARY in December 2014.
ONLINE PRESENCE. Murakami's Facebook fan page has more than 700,000 fans who post
regularly and avidly follow news about the publication of the new novel. The Murakami
website (HarukiMurakami.com) is also popular: it gets roughly 22,000 page views per month
without any special promotion.
Murakami's books are published in 45 territories, in 42 languages
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781448190959 |
| PRICE | £8.99 (GBP) |
