Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

He was young, knowing very little about the surrounding life. Moreover, the new Tokyo world was vastly different from the environment he grew up in. The metropolis turned out to be much larger than he had imagined. There were too many choices of what to do, people interacted with each other in ways that felt unfamiliar, and life rushed by too quickly. Because of all this, he could not find a balance between himself and his surroundings. But the main thing? During those years, he still had somewhere to return to. You sit at Tokyo Station on the "Shinkansen" — and in just about an hour and a half, you arrive at the "unshakable stronghold of harmony and friendship." To where time flows slowly, and those you can open your soul to are always waiting. He learned that this place had disappeared without a trace in his second year, during the summer vacation.