When you've only heard about a author, but not read any of his works, you've all kind of speculations in your mind. What if it turns out to be one of those stories with all those big words about life & philosophy , where you can't relate to the story..??
It gets recommended to you in a book club so you read it anyways, but the best part is when that book exceed your expectations & blows your mind away...
'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki..' is basically centered around the theme of closure & tsukuru's journey of finally finding it & accepting it.
When the protagonist of the book 'Tsukuru' decides to introspect his life, his past, his friendship, he so effortlessly takes you along in that journey...you can almost feel every emotion he feels with the turn of events & when the truth of all that happened in his past is revealed to him.
He is as clueless about the plot as you , and after discovering the truth he finds the closure he's been looking for and somehow as a reader you find yours too..
Tsukuru never found all the answers he was looking for...the reason his world came to pieces 16 years ago was all because of a lie, but he never found out why him & he never will...But that's what life is...you find some answers & the rest of it you just have to let go...
Maybe you'll feel the tiny disappointment of not knowing about what happens with Tsukuru's romantic plot with Sara. But that's ok...The sutle romance plot was beautifully integrated with the story...And the story was all about finding closure...dealing with your past & letting it go.
Haruki Murakami told this story with the simplest words but larger than life emotions... Each of us has a role to play, some of our colors to someone's lives & others are those colorless vessel which everyone needs around them to store their emotions & make them feel at home.
well, it was worth being #TSBCChallenge...can't wait for another one & read something as spectacular as this.
