Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: A novel

· Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Bruce Locke
4.4
7 reviews
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10 hr 9 min
Unabridged
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About this audiobook

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the long-awaited new novel—a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan—from the award-winning, internationally best-selling author Haruki Murakami.

Here he gives us the remarkable story of Tsukuru Tazaki, a young man haunted by a great loss; of dreams and nightmares that have unintended consequences for the world around us; and of a journey into the past that is necessary to mend the present. It is a story of love, friendship, and heartbreak for the ages.





Années de pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage) - "Le mal du pays" by Franz Liszt, performed by Peter Mendelsund. Recorded by Charles Myers Recording Studio, Manhattan School of Music, The Gordon K. and Harriet Greenfield Hall. Kevin Boutote, Recording Engineer.

Ratings and reviews

4.4
7 reviews
Brian Conley
April 19, 2020
The story itself is great, well-told and very well written. Haruki Murakami is a fantastic author and while this work is much more grounded than his other surrealisms, it's still great. The audiobook, however, is awful. Bruce Locke does a terrible job. His voice is boring and he insists on doing a stereotypical Japanese accent for every bit of dialogue which makes the book sound like an World War 2 looney toons cartoon. I cannot recommend this audiobook due to the absolute incompetence and poor decisions and quality of the narrator. Shame on you, Bruce.
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Graham Bellefeuille
September 15, 2023
Though not my favorite Murakami work, the story is engaging and the narration is well done. Worthwhile if not exceptional
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About the author

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and 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.

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