İthaki Yayınları Colorful

1 Million Readers Worldwide

“A second chance to discover all the colors of life.”

A spirit who remembers nothing of its past is given one last chance before it vanishes forever: it will return to the world in the body of fourteen-year-old Makoto Kobayashi. The only way to be saved is to remember the great mistake from its own past while living Makoto’s life. To do this, it must take a close look at this unhappy child’s world and discover his family, his friends, and the things he has overlooked.

With a strange angel by his side, a family he doesn’t know, and a school he has to attend every day, this second chance doesn’t exactly feel like a prize worth winning. What is there to love in Makoto’s life? But as the days go by, his family, his friends, and the events that brought him to this point begin to reveal different sides of themselves. It turns out that people who seem easy to understand at first glance aren’t all cut from the same cloth.

Eto Mori, winner of the Naoki Prize,ColorfulIt explores loneliness, the pains of growing up, and the harsh judgments we pass on ourselves with subtle humor. A fragile, surprising, and hopeful novel that shows how, as we get to know others, we can also make room for ourselves.

“A hopeful story about the colorful nature of the human spirit.” -Kirkus