Booktopia Comments
The limited edition of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage is printed in full colour on high grade Munken Lynx paper and bound in a luxurious neutral shade of vegetable tanned calfskin. It is constructed using an innovative variation on a traditional Yapp binding which features three silk ribbons laced through the case, two of which are used to tie the book shut. The title is discreetly blind blocked into the front panel of the book.
The book is presented in a clamshell case which features an inset transparent plastic panel printed with the characteristic coloured circle design die cut into the front face. It sits in a black paper tray and is protected by another transparent PVC hinged screen. It also comes with a black envelope containing twelve small sheets which feature all of the stickers commissioned from prestigious Japanese illustrators to accompany the publication of the trade edition of the book.
Product Description
The new international bestseller from the author of 1Q84, Norwegian Wood and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.
Tsukuru Tzaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names containes 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 throygh 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.
About the Author
Haruki Murakami is a contemporary Japanese writer. Murakami has been translated into 50 languages and his best-selling books have been published in millions of copies. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered critical acclaim and numerous awards, both in Japan and internationally, including the World Fantasy Award (2006) and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (2006), while his whole oeuvre garnered the Franz Kafka Prize (2006) and the Jerusalem Prize (2009), among others. Murakami has also translated a number of English works into Japanese. His most notable works include A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), Norwegian Wood (1987), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1994-1995), Kafka on the Shore (2002), and 1Q84 (2009–2010).
Industry Reviews
'Murakami is like a magicia who explains that 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 Books Review
'The best novelist on the planet' - Observer
