Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
The new novel—a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan—from the internationally acclaimed author, his first since IQ84.
The new novel—a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan—from the internationally acclaimed author, his first since IQ84.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385352109 (0385352107)
ASIN: 385352107
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
Realistic Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Drama,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Japan,
German Literature,
Japanese Literature
Tsukuru Tazaki has four best friends at school and one day for some reason they all refuse to speak to him or indeed have anything further to do with him....why? That is really all that you need to know about this wonderful book and apart from an unexpected conclusion, which not everyone might find ...
This was the book that convinced me that Murakami is a one-trick pony. And for now, I've had my fill of melancholic, everyman protagonists and their awkward quests for spiritual and sexual fulfillment.
So...pretty much everything about this book made me really uncomfortable. The premise is this: a decade or so ago, Tsukuru Tazaki's four closest friends all decided that they didn't want to know him any more. Now, after moping about all this time, Tsukuru has met a girl, Sara, who helps him find o...
For most of his teenage age Colorless was part of an inseparable five person group, three boys, two girls. Until one day he wasn't, told he had done something so terrible he was cut out off the group, they would no longer acknowledge him nor have anything to do with him. But why? What had he done? A...
While not as weird as Murakami's other works, I like how mature the story was. And the ending was absolutely perfect, not cheesy. I would have liked it if the book was longer though, most of the characters didn't feel as fleshed out and I hoped they would be. In fact, they were almost a bit dull. Bu...
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