Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages. The most recent of his many international honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V. S. Naipaul. Translated by Philip Gabriel.
A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book
One of the Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Slate, Mother
Jones, The Daily Beast, and BookPage's Best Books of the Year
“Mesmerizing, immersive, hallucinogenic.” —Entertainment Weekly
“Readers wait for [Murakami’s] work the way past generations lined
up at record stores for new albums by the Beatles or Bob Dylan....
Reveals another side of Murakami, one not so easy to pin down.... A
book for both the new and experienced reader.” —Patti Smith, The
New York Times Book Review
“Hypnotic.” —The Boston Globe
“Brilliant.” —The Miami Herald
“A masterpiece.” —Elle
“Wistful, mysterious, winsome, disturbing, seductive.” —The
Atlantic
“Remarkable.” —The Washington Post
“Intoxicating.... Full of beauty, strangeness, and color.”
—NPR
“[Murakami] is ever alert to minds and hearts, to what it is,
precisely, that they feel and see, and to humanity’s abiding and
indomitable spirit.... A deeply affecting novel, not only for the
dark nooks and crannies it explores, but for the magic that seeps
into its characters’ subconsciouses, for the lengths to which they
will go to protect or damage one another, for the brilliant
characterizations it delivers along the way.” —The Washington
Post
“More than just a story but rather a meditation.... There is a
rawness, a vulnerability, to these characters.” —Los Angeles
Times
“Tsukuru’s pilgrimage will never end, because he is moving
constantly away from his destination, which is his old self. This
is a narrow poignancy, but a powerful one, and Murakami is its
master. Perhaps that's why he has come to speak not just for his
thwarted nation, but for so many of us who love art—since it's only
there, alas, in novels such as this one, that we're allowed to live
twice.” —Chicago Tribune
“Bold and colorful threads of fiction blur smoothly together to
form the muted white of an almost ordinary realism. Like J.M.
Coetzee, Murakami smoothly interlaces allegorical meanings with
everyday particulars of contemporary social reality.... Tsukuru’s
situation will resonate with anyone who feels adrift in this age of
Google and Facebook.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Colorless Tsukuru spins a weave of ... vivid images around a great
mystery.... The story flows along smoothly, wrapping around details
like objects in a stream.” —The Boston Globe
“The premise is simple enough, but in the works of Murakami,
nothing is simple.... A perfect introduction to Murakami’s world,
where questions of guilt and motivation abound, and the future is
an open question.” —The Miami Herald
“Beautiful, rich with moving images and lush yet exquisitely
controlled language.... Fans of elegant, intelligent fiction will
welcome this book.” —Tampa Bay Times
“Moving.... One of Murakami’s most endearing and enduring traits as
a writer is an almost reportorial attention to detail, the combined
effect of which gives you a complete picture while still feeling a
little ethereal.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“Shockingly seductive.... Murakami has a knack for swift, seamless
storytelling.... Don’t be surprised if you devour Colorless Tsukuru
Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage in the course of a night or
two.... Charming and unexpected.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch
“Satisfying.... Murakami can find mystery in the mundane and
conjure it in sparse, Raymond Carveresque prose.” —Financial
Times
“Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki alights in some mysterious places but
doesn’t settle there.... [It] is replete with emotionally frank,
philosophical discussions.... Reflective.” —The Dallas Morning
News
“A piercing and surprisingly compact story about friendship and
loneliness.... Murakami skillfully explores the depths of Tsukuru’s
isolation and pain.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Truly captivating ... Calling Murakami a ‘universally respected
author’ or even a ‘paragon of literature’ is no longer apt. The man
is a cultural force unto himself.... [In Colorless Tsukuru] the
staples of his work ... all come together to form a beautiful
whole.” —A.V. Club
“Spare and contained.... Quiet, with disturbing depths.” —The
Columbus Dispatch
“A testament to the mystery, magic, and mastery of this
much-revered Japanese writer’s imaginative powers. Murakami’s moxie
is characterized by a brilliant detective-story-like blend of
intuition, hard-nosed logic, impeccable pacing, and poetic
revelations.” —Elle
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