That the novel sold over one million copies its first week in Japan guarantees - absolutely, deservedly so - instant best-seller status stateside as well." - Library Journal (starred review) "One of Murakami's more memorable protagonists.
In the end, Murakami writes love stories, all the more tender and often tragic for their exploration of the multiple realities in which his lovers live." - Booklist (starred review) "Murakami devotees will sigh with relief at finding his usual memes - the moon, Cutty Sark, a musical theme, ringing telephones, a surreal story-within-a story (this time about passing on death and possibly six fingers). There are always other dimensions in Murakami's novels, and while they can seem impenetrable, they eventually feed into and help vivify the powerful personal dramas taking place on a purely human level.
and, of course, metaphysically, as Tazaki attempts to make sense of his own inner world and the dreams that shape his other dimension. A journey of immense magnitude, both physically. As the dark truth about Shiro reveals itself, Tsukuru must confront the simmering emotional undercurrents that the group had suppressed in order to reach their ideal of perfect friendship."Hypnotically fascinating. Sara urges Tsukuru to try to find his old group and to try to solve the mystery that has haunted him all these years: why did they suddenly turn on him? On a quest to discover the truth, Tsukuru travels back to meet his old friends-with the exception of Shiro, the group's most volatile and psychologically unstable member, who he learns was strangled to death in an unsolved murder six years ago. Years later, Tsukuru, now a successful engineer, begins dating an older woman named Sara and confesses to her the shadow this betrayal has cast over his life. Something has changed, but nobody, not even his closest friends, will tell him what.
But when Tsukuru returns home from college in Tokyo, he finds himself inexplicably rebuffed by the group. Tsukuru Tazaki belongs to a tight-knit group of five friends in high school-three boys and two girls who form a perfect circle they imagine will stay together forever. "The new novel-a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan-from the internationally acclaimed author, his first since IQ84"-Ĭolorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage centers on a devastating emotional betrayal and its consequences.
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