3.5
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • One of the most revered voices in literature today gives us a story of love, friendship, and heartbreak for the ages.
“Mesmerizing, immersive, hallucinogenic.”—Entertainment Weekly
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the remarkable story of 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.
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Slate, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, BookPage
“Mesmerizing, immersive, hallucinogenic.”—Entertainment Weekly
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the remarkable story of 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.
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Slate, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, BookPage
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3.5
“Tsukuru Tazaki is never beating the autism allegations”
“This novel allows the reader to reflect on their own friendships and past trauma. I can relate a lot to Tsukuru and when I read this novel I realized that my past friendships have also left an open wound, something I hadn’t noticed before. Whether I will try to solve it as maturely and bravely as Tsukuru is a question. No, the real question is whether my old friends would be as mature as Tsukuru’s friends and have an honest, deep conversation with me. I doubt it, maybe when we’re older?
Other than the beautiful message it conveys, I love the small details about train stations and music. Le mal du pays is a beautiful piece and seeing such music be mentioned made me excited and inspired.
There are some things that I didn’t completely get regarding the story line. For example, what happened to Haida? And what was the relevance of the story he told about his father? I absolutely loved how Murakami found a way to connect every minor detail to make it make sense, but these two questions keep lingering in my head. I had expected there to be more information about the situation with Haida, so it disappointed me a little.
I however did have to take a few points of the score because of the explicit sexualization of minors. When reading some reviews I saw there was some criticism on the misogyny and homophobia in this novel, but honestly, I wouldn’t have realized that it was there if people hadn’t mentioned it. It didn’t affect the plot or quality of the novel that much in my opinion. But the sexualization…. It made me extremely uncomfortable, which did heavily influence the quality of the novel.”
About Haruki Murakami
HARUKI MURAKAMI was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and one of the most recent of his many international honors is the Cino Del Duca World Prize, whose previous recipients include Jorge Luis Borges, Ismail Kadare, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Joyce Carol Oates.
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