What is your review of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki?

“Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage” is an incredibly meticulous investigation of the mind that demonstrates Murakami’s mastery of nuance. It is a phenomenological exploration of self and a powerful insight into the nature of relationships.

What do you think about Tsukuru’s life?

Tsukuru’s life takes on a hallucinogenic and somewhat disturbing quality mainly residing in his inner monologues, whose subject matter ranges from the mundane to the philosophical.

How many best friends did Tsukuru Tazaki have at school?

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 w Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school.

How does Murakami portray Tsukuru as an introvert?

Murakami paints him as introverted and extremely observant, yet more importantly, Tsukuru paints himself as lackluster or “colorless,” as opposed to his exuberant and “colorful” friends.

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is Haruki Murakami’s thirteenth novel. This review contains spoilers. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki is a great quarter-life crisis book. I also recommend it for midlife crises and to anyone who feels lost.

What is the significance of Haida and Tsukuru?

Tsukuru is colorless, while Haida is a neutral color, gray. Both serve as vessels, of sin, to suffer in place of other people. (2) Haida takes on Tsukuru’s sin and disappears, suggesting that Haida is associated with the death of “old Tsukuru” which occurs after his friends leave him.

What is the 6th finger on Tsukuru’s finger?

Haida, whose name means “gray field,” is the invisible sixth finger. The sixth finger is unnecessary, and indeed, Haida’s disappearance was not the same to Tsukuru as that of his other friends. “he didn’t feel bitter about Haida abandoning him.