RaveThe San Francisco ChronicleThe 'pilgrimage' of Haruki Murakami's latest novel, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, translates literally as a 'reverent perambulation' ... The pilgrimage makes a fine metaphor for its hero's journey, but perhaps an even better one for the author's ... He offers instead a down-to-earth examination of isolation and intimacy so elementary that it feels more like minimalist art than the complex, wind-up creations he usually produces ... In this book, spiritual and interpersonal work requires physical effort, beginning with seemingly small behaviors that create new pathways of thinking and relating ... Readers find themselves propelled along by the ebb and flow of an internal logic that feels as much like a musical progression as it does an unfolding of events ...in this work these bold and colorful threads of fiction blur smoothly together to form the muted white of an almost ordinary realism.