Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Japanese: 色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年, Hepburn: Shikisai o motanai Tazaki …
Review of 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage' on 'Storygraph'
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.