Tsukuru

Years later, Tsukuru has become a successful engineer, but is also something of a loner. Something has changed, but nobody will tell him what-and he never sees them again. But when Tsukuru returns home from his first year of college in Tokyo, he finds that they want nothing to do with him. In high school, Tsukuru Tazaki belonged to an extremely tight-knit group of friends who pledged to stay together forever. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage marks a new direction in Murakami's fiction: a return to the lyrical realism not seen since his 1987 novel Norwegian Wood, but set against the social realities of contemporary Japan.