Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage

a novel

English language

Published March 3, 2014 by Knopf, Bond Street Books, Vintage.

ISBN:
978-0-385-35211-6
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OCLC Number:
883259026

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The remarkable story of Tsukuru Tazaki, a young man haunted by a great loss; of dreams and nightmares that have unintended consequences for the world around us; and of a journey into the past that is necessary to mend the present. It is a story of love, friendship, and heartbreak for the ages.

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CW: Plot revolves around a false rape accusation.

This is... not Murakami's strongest work. It's sort of a rehash of a lot of his common themes, in a rather muddy story that leaves things unresolved (I mean... more unresolved than usual). The main crux of the plot left me cold, and there was a bit much of the "females are magic" trope (whether it was the vibrant, otherworldly energy of young women or the comfortable, intuitive wisdom of older women).

There are things I liked about it, but mostly they felt like pale shadows of prior Murakami works, most particularly [b:1Q84|10357575|1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)|Haruki Murakami|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1359439026s/10357575.jpg|18160093] (the erotic dream/nightmare thing) and [b:Norwegian Wood|11297|Norwegian Wood|Haruki Murakami|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1386924361s/11297.jpg|2956680] (adolescent friendships/romances, nostalgia, loss).

The writing in general also seemed a bit more uninspired than usual. I think this book had a different translator than his prior novels, so I don't know whether that's true of the …

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Subjects

  • Friendship
  • Fiction
  • Identity (Psychology)
  • Locomotive engineers
  • Self-realization
  • Voyages and travels
  • Japanese fiction
  • Translations into English
  • Fantasy
  • Literature
  • Amitié
  • Romans, nouvelles
  • Identité (Psychologie)
  • Réalisation de soi
  • Voyages
  • FICTION
  • Literary
  • Psychological
  • Coming of Age
  • Contemporary
  • Bildungsromans

Places

  • Japan
  • Europe