Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

by Haruki Murakami

Hardcover, 298 pages

English language

Published Dec. 7, 2014 by Harvill Secker.

ISBN:: 978-1-84655-833-7
OCLC Number:: 881024398

(6 reviews)

Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning 'red pine', and Oumi, 'blue sea', while the girls' names were Shirane, 'white root', and Kurono, 'black field'. Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it. One day Tsukuru Tazaki's friends announced that they didn't want to see him, or talk to him, ever again. Since that day Tsukuru has been floating through life, unable to form intimate connections with anyone. But then he meets Sara, who tells him that the time has come to find out what happened all those years ago.

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Nathan John Cooper reviewed Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

Another Brilliant Murakami Read.

4 stars

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.

otrops reviewed Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

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5 stars

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.