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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Written by: Philip Gabriel - translator, Haruki Murakami
Narrated by: Bruce Locke
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Brought to you by Penguin.

A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally best-selling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84.

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.

©2013 Haruki Murakami (P)2021 Penguin Audio Coming of Age Friendship Genre Fiction Literary Fiction

Critic Reviews

Long-listed, I.M.P.A.C. Dublin Award, 2016

Long-listed, Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, 2015
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The character is not as coulourless as the title would suggest. Engrossing story , and as we come to expect from Murakami, there is no neat ending as it is life.

Wonderful and absorbing book.

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the story is nice and friendship angle is good but overall it was ok not something exceptional. the narration is good and the only one you'll find everywhere, so satisfied with it.

it was nice but not the best

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This is my third novel of Murakami and I had expected some weird magical things to happen in his story but to my surprise, there wasn't much like other novels. Yet, there was some kind of haunting feeling throughout, which kept me hooked. Some of the themes that I could detect: Burdens that we all carry deep within, sense of imperfection, connectedness despite getting separated, everyday mundane city life, sense of victim hood that we sometimes have, etc.

Loved it

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The intricacies of multiple relationships each shading off into the others isolation was engrossing. Narrated through conversations and memories, it produced a flow that I wanted to last longer than its conclusion. It was a deeply moving experience and gets under your skin in a way that some of his more explicitly magical stories don’t quite achieve.

Intricate Fabric. When I read the story I felt indifferent. Hearing it, for whatever reason, engrossed me. The intricacies of m

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