Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

from tsunaminoai

Trust the Japanese to be able to sum up and put into words the listlessness the changes between adolescence and adulthood engender. "Mono no aware." There's a lot of deep reflection in the book. However it does somewhat suffer in translation to he west as the characters are a little stilted and t...

from Laura400

Bound to please most of his fans, this is a fast-moving novel with Murakami's characteristic flourishes and preoccupations, including a pervasive sense of dread and alienation from the self and others. It justifies those comparisons to Kafka often made of Murakami, especially in the beginning. In...

from VioletBramble

Tsukuru Tazaki was one of a group of five very close friends all through school. His four friends all had names that contained a color. His name means "to build or make". He has always felt colorless and empty. Tazaki went away to Tokyo for university to study railway station design (his obsessio...

from missizicks

I am biased because I love the way Murakami writes, but I thought this book was wonderful. It has been a while since I have devoured a book in a single day, but once I started, I couldn't put it down for long. There is a restfulness to Murakami's prose, like being in a dream and waking up feeling...

from ursula

I am a fan of Murakami's stranger fiction, so I was underwhelmed by the overall normalcy of this novel. I'm just going to jot down a few thoughts about things I liked about the book, because there were a number of them. Murakami's writing was lovely - spare and straightforward as always. I was in...