Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

I finished this over a weekend - that's a weekend during a term! What a luxury to reclaim a weekend.
I like reading Murakami novels, there is something about the pace that I find reassuring.

Tsukuru Tazaki is suddenly cut off from his childhood friends (who's names all have colours in tthem) with no explanation. Over a phonecall he finds out that none of his friends ever want to see him again, or speak to him again. In his confusion and shock Tsukuru agrees to this without finding out why his friends have made this drastic decision. This novel follows Tsukuru's 'pilgrimage' to try and understand his adulthood following his traumatic experience. He travels back to his home town to see some of his former friends and then on to Finland to catch up with another.

The book itself was lovely. I've put a picture up of the sleeve as well as the book cover. The colours are beautiful, and my version also had a number of stickers in there which means that you can personalise your cover should you want to. I didn't. Stickers remain intact and unopened.