Until one day during Tsukuru’s second year in college when those friends abruptly cut all relationships with him. They did everything together, wanting no other friends to disturb their harmony. In his high school years, he had been part of a close-knit quintet an “orderly, harmonious community” of two girls, three boys. … a container that for the sake of convenience was labelled with the same name – but its contents had been replaced. He feels as if the real Tsukuru Tazaki passed away years earlier, leaving only a shell: He has no friends and all his relationships with women have come to nothing. After work he retreats either to a train station or to his apartment where he listens to music. He can sit for hours in a station watching the ebb and flow of passengers and the rhythm of train arrivals and departures. Tsukuru Tazaki is a 36-year-old railway engineer with an abiding passion for train stations. The character in question is a young man whose life is haunted by a great loss in his adolescent years.
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