TY - BOOK AU - Murakami,Haruki AU - Gabriel,Philip TI - Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki: and his years of pilgrimage SN - 9781846558337 (hardback) U1 - 895.636 23 PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - Harvill Secker KW - Psychological fiction KW - Locomotive engineers KW - Fiction KW - Japanese fiction KW - Translations into English KW - Friendship KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Self-realization KW - Voyages and travels KW - Japan KW - Europe N1 - Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel; First published with the title 'Shikisai o Motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to, Kare no Junrei no Toshi' in 2013 N2 - 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 ER -