Die Pilgerjahre des farblosen Herrn Tazaki Roman

This book, like all Murakami books, managed to pick me up and remove my mind from the restrictive realms of reality and allow it to swim in the depths of hyper-awareness. During and after reading any of Murakami’s books, I feel life in a far more vivid and powerful manner; as though all the small things that I never would’ve paid overt attention to hold a true, deep, new-founded beauty. Whenever I feel as though I am losing grasp of reality, I will always return to Murakami.

Much to my surprise, this is now my favorite Murakami book. It's taken many years Murakami to supplant [b:Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World|10374|Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World|Haruki Murakami|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1399844477s/10374.jpg|2531870] in my affections, but he's done it.

Murakami is playing with many of the same themes that have made me love his work: the pervasive feel of unreality, the vague but persistent sense of alienation, the movement between two worlds. This is Murakami with an emotional depth that I don't I've seen before, and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki is a more profound and (ahem) colorful book because of it.