Summary of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: by Haruki Murakami | Includes Analysis

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Instaread, Inc
• Release date: May 17, 2016
• ISBN: 9781683781912

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Tsukuru Tazaki experienced a devastating depression the summer after his sophomore year in college at the age of twenty. He became obsessed with death, and spent all of his time thinking about suicide. His depression was preceded by the revelation from one of his high school friends, Ao, that his entire group of best friends from high school no longer wanted to be friends with him. Not only did they no longer want his friendship, but they refused to speak with him, see him, or explain the reason for ending their relationships with him.

At the time, Tsukuru suffered from the shock of such complete rejection and could not pursue the reason for his banishment from the group. When he tells his girlfriend, Sara, sixteen years later, she cannot believe that he has gone so long without knowing what happened. She is worried that Tsuruku suffers from emotional blockage because of the traumatic event. When Tsukuru refuses to talk further about this, Sara ends their fourth date abruptly.

Tsukuru made only one friend in Tokyo after his devastating break from his high school friends. He met Haida at the college swimming pool, and the two men became close friends quickly, spending most of their free time together listening to classical music, dining, and having intellectual and philosophical conversations. After Tsukuru had a strange erotic dream involving two of his high school friends and Haida, his friend disappeared for several days. He returned and claimed that he had family issues to take care of. Haida’s return was short-lived,