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A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2014
A New York Times Notable Book
A Guardian Best Book of the Year
A New York Times Bestseller
Nominated for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
Nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award
National Bestseller
“Hardly a soul writes of the listening and playing of music with such insight and tenderness. . . . There are moments of epiphany gracefully expressed, especially in regard to how people affect one another. . . . The book reveals another side of Murakami, one not so easy to pin down. Incurably restive, ambiguous and valiantly struggling toward a new level of maturation. A shedding of Murakami skin.” —Patti Smith, The New York Times Book Review
“The new book . . . added to my appreciation of Murakami’s writing.”
―Huffington Post (UK)
“This is a terrific novel, in which the author’s clinical tone—colorless, if you will—works to the strengths of the book, chronicling a young man sorting through old friends and old mistakes, the hopes of finally feeling his life take hold. Though the structure is nearly episodic, and the hero’s adventures are a familiar mix of the comic, the horrific and the just plain odd, the book has a clear and melancholy thread: Life is bewildering, and we must choose to cherish and to ignore the incidents that we decide fit best, or not at all, in our ideas of ourselves, like plucking out a tune on the piano.”
―Daniel Handler, The New York Times Book Review
“A tender, wistful, intermittently mystical group portrait of youthful love and loss.”
—The Independent (UK)
“The book enacts the slow awakening of colorless Tsukuru to full-blooded life by moving gradually from deliberately flat diction to lush arpeggios of similes.”
—The New Yorker
“Over a long and varied career, [Murakami] has crafted a strange and unique narrative style at once realistic and fantastic. . . . Happily, Tsukuru’s unpredictable progression of events is underpinned by one of Murakami’s most spare and moving stories. . . . Murakami’s dreamlike, illogical sense of reality has always been one of his greatest strengths; focusing his talents on this simple but suggestive tale, he delivers a powerful emotional payoff.”
—The Record (Kitchener-Waterloo)
“Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki clearly delights. . . . It’s worth the read.”
—The Times (UK)
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Product details
- ISBN-13: 9780099590378
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Published: July 2015
- Pages: 304
- Binding: Paperback
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