Haruki Murakami - Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Not everything was lost in the flow of time . That’s what Tsukuru should have said to Eri when he said goodbye at the lakeside in Finland. But at that point, he couldn’t put it into words.

We truly believed in something back then, and we knew we were the kind of people capable of believing in something—with all our hearts. And that kind of hope will never simply vanish .

He calmed himself, shut his eyes, and fell asleep. The rear light of consciousness, like the last express train of the night, began to fade into the distance, gradually speeding up, growing smaller until it was, finally, sucked into the depths of the night, where it disappeared. All that remained was the sound of the wind slipping through a stand of white birch trees.

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and the most recent of his many international honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V. S. Naipaul.

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Translation copyright © 2014 by Haruki Murakami

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC, New York, and in Canada by Bond Street Books, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, Penguin Random House companies. Originally published in Japan as Shikisai o Motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to, Kare no Junrei no Toshi by Bungeishunjū Ltd., Tokyo, in 2013. Copyright © 2013 by Haruki Murakami.

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Murakami, Haruki, [date] author.

[Shikisai o motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to kare no junrei no toshi. English]

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage : a novel / Haruki Murakami; translated by Philip Gabriel.

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ISBN 978-0-385-35210-9 (hardback)—ISBN 978-0-385-35211-6 (ebook)

I. Gabriel, Philip, [date] translator. II. Title.

PL856.U673S5513 2014

895.63’5—dc23

2014010404

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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