Nothing is more dreary in literature today, not even the political autobiography, than the realistic novel, promising steaming heaps of poignant verisimilitude and emotional depth. Put through the ...

COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE. By Haruki Murakami. Knopf. 386 pages. $25.95. The running theme of Tsukuru Tazaki's life, as he sees it, is that he has "no place he needs to go," ...

Haruki Murakami’s “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage” begins with a simple premise: A Tokyo railroad engineer, the Tsukuru Tazaki of the novel’s title, unable to get over the summer ...

“Poets die adolescents,” Robert Lowell wrote, and it’s supposed to be romantic. Personally I think it sounds like hell. Just imagine: never growing out of your teenage rawness to the world, your ...

Tsukuru Tazaki, the reluctant hero of Haruki Murakami’s new novel, “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage,” has a curious problem for a character expected to entertain readers over the ...

is the latest novel by Haruki Murakami. In Japan, when his books are released, fans wait for hours in line to get a copy. I had not read any of Murakami’s novels before, and as soon as I started to ...

When the bottom falls out of your life, you can’t always figure out what happened. You just have to get through it. But getting through it and getting past it can be the difference between surviving ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The "pilgrimage" of Haruki Murakami's latest novel, "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage," translates literally as a "reverent perambulation." In this traditional Japanese practice, ...

In Japan, the publication of a Haruki Murakami book is met with frenzied anticipation. His new novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, sold more than 1 million copies the first ...