Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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Bruce Locke
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally best-selling 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.
©2013 Haruki Murakami (P)2021 Penguin AudioCritic Reviews
Long-listed, I.M.P.A.C. Dublin Award, 2016
Long-listed, Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, 2015
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 31-05-2023
fantastically written but falls short
has the aura of the usual Murakami book, but unfortunately the real crux of the story falls a bit flat, the irony of it is that the character of tsukuru never does seem to recover/ gain any colour since the initial split, which is a pretty depressing look at overcoming grief. And if that was the point then fine, but if it was intentional, then the theme seems to be that sometimes you can just never recover who you really were and if you experience significant pain, sometimes you will never recover your true self. And that's a pretty harsh takeaway.
NOW, the narration...the narrator has a great tone, but the choice of a Japanese accent is incredibly odd and distracting, especially considering that this accent is brought out for literally every character (even the Finnish character sometimes when the narrator forgets their Finnish maybe?). Also, the narrator doesn't put on different voices in any real discernable way for the different characters so it can be confusing as to who is reading at times. The performance wasn't bad to the point I felt it really distracted from the story, but it did not improve it.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Inga
- 10-03-2022
Fake Japanese accent UNBEARABLE
The reader is good, but why oh why is all the dialogue spoken in that awful “Japanese” accent?? Really yanks the listener out of the story. A ridiculous decision - producers, please don’t ever do anything like this again, it’s mortifying. I’m persisting because I can’t find another recording of this novel, but gosh, what a misstep. I feel sorry for the voice actor.
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- Anonymous User
- 26-09-2024
The voice of the narrator was terrible but the story was really good
This book is a fantastic story however the narration had this odd accent which was off putting the entire time a character spoke. The story line was textbook Murakami which was very enjoyable and relaxing.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- Audrey Dockery
- 15-05-2023
fake Japanese accents totally wreck this novel
I had to stop listening after an hour. The sample didn't reveal the fake awful pseudo Japanese accents. why oh why, I wish I could get my credit back. The story sounds good and I will definitely read the book but this performance is absolutely awful. Culturally paternalistic.
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