Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Murakami, Haruki; Gabriel, Philip (Translator)

ISBN 10: 1846558336 / ISBN 13: 9781846558337

Edité par Harvill Secker, London, 2014

A propos de cet article

First UK edition. Previously published in the US by Knopf. Translated by Philip Gabriel. Boards have a heavy dent to the fore edge of the rear panel. The fore edges have a few yellow marks and there is a faint dark mark to the bottom edges. The stickers are in place on the front free endpaper but the red circular sticker over them at the top has been pulled back and there is some residue from this at the top of the sticker pack edge. Very slight surface discolouration in a few places. Slight creasing down the centre of the first few pages but the pages are otherwise unmarked. The jacket has a patch of label residue to the rear panel, a four inch crease to the top corner of the front flap, some creasing along the fore edge of the rear panel and some light surface marking. First printing.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
• Éditeur: Harvill Secker, London
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1846558336
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781846558337
• Reliure: Original Cloth
• Édition: First Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine 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.