The forward momentum of the first 150 pages of the novel is driven by the mystery of why Tsukuru got dumped by his friends. The easygoing and unflaggingly polite Tsukuru acted as the “colorless” background against which these four could shine, and he was the invisible glue that held the group together. Unfortunately, she failed to become a concert pianist and so ended up as a private piano teacher, but her ultimate fate was even more tragic. Shire Yuzuki, or Shiro (White), looked like a model and had gorgeous long black hair, but she hated attention and found joy in playing piano.
Kuro became a potter and fell in love with a foreign student who had come to Japan to study pottery, and she now lives with him and their two daughters in Finland. Kurono Eri, or Kuro (Black), is quick-witted and clever and was known for her sarcastic sense humor in high school. Instead he entered the corporate world and quickly dropped out in order to launch a consulting firm that holds management training seminars. Akamatsu Kei, or Aka (Red), is fiercely intelligent and analytical, and everyone thought he would become a university professor after he graduated from college. As an adult, he works as a salesman at a Lexus dealership. Oumi Yoshio, or Ao (Blue), has an outgoing personality, and he was the captain of his rugby team in high school. Tsukuru’s friends are an interesting group, and each of them goes by a color-based nickname. Sara’s Lysistrata-like threat compels Tsukuru to embark on a pilgrimage that takes him across and beyond Japan to track down his friends from high school in order to figure out what happened between them and what went wrong.
She thus gives Tsukuru an ultimatum: Get rid of your emotional baggage, or I will never sleep with you again. Sara reciprocates Tsukuru’s affections, but she senses that something is holding him back from being in a fully committed relationship. He’s single, but he has kindled a romance with a businesswoman named Sara, of whom he is quite enamored. Sixteen years later, the 36-year-old Tsukuru is employed a railroad company, where he works on the design and construction of train stations. His four best friends from high school suddenly stopped talking to him, and he had no idea why. ( Shikisai o motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to kare no junrei no toshi)įrom July to January of his second year of college, Tazaki Tsukuru was absorbed by thoughts of death. Title: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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