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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
- Author
- Haruki Murakami
- Narrator
- Bruce Locke
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 11 March 2021
- Run Time
- 10 hours 10 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling 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.
© Haruki Murakami 2013 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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A naturalistic coming-of-age story… sprinkled with strange images and written in a hauntingly mournful key
Guardian
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[Murakmi’s] elegant, frugal prose creates a tale of courage and hope as Tsukuru tries to unlock the secrets of his past
Stylist
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Critics have variously likened Murakami to Raymond Carver, Raymond Chandler, Arthur C Clarke, Don DeLillo, Philip K Dick, Bret Easton Ellis and Thomas Pynchon – a roster so ill-assorted to suggest he is in fact an original
New York Times
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A rich and even brilliant piece of work… Genuinely resonant and satisfying
Spectator
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This is a book for both the new and experienced reader....[it] reveals another side of Murakami, one not so easy to pin down. Incurably restive, ambiguous and valiantly struggling toward a new level of maturation
New York Times
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Murakami’s prose seamlessly fuses folksiness and profundity… A harmonious blend of naivety and riddling sophistication’
Independent
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Neat, economical, even minimalist... surprisingly painful and poignant
Literary Review
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Murakami is like a magician who explains what he’s doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers . . . But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves
New York Times Book Review
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Delicately crafted masterpiece
The List
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Remarkable… Spellbinding… [Murakami] is ever alert to minds and hearts…and to humanity’s abiding and indomitable spirit
Washington Post
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Details
- Author
- Haruki Murakami
- Narrator
- Bruce Locke
- Duration
- 10 hours 10 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 March 2021
- ISBN
- 9781473596092
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: coming of age, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Magical realism, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84Tsukuru 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.© Haruki Murakami 2013 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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