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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki & His Years of Pilgrimage
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Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
W Krauss
, November 02, 2015
This novel, with its unusual title, tells the story of a young man who is abruptly dropped by his four best friends, a group who had an amazing connection with each other for a time when they were in high school. Tsukuru has left for Tokyo to attend engineering school, leaving his friends behind. However, he continues to visit them in his hometown when he can. Suddenly, when he is in his sophomore year of college, he returns home to find that none of his friends in the group will see or speak to him. He is devastated, returning to Tokyo despondent and confused. After entering a period of severe depression and near death, Tsukuru pulls himself out of it, finishes school and begins a career building train stations. He meets Sara, a woman he is very attracted to and wants to have a long term relationship with. But Sara feels he has issues preventing him from committing and convinces him to see his old friends and find out why they ended their relationship with him. The rest of the book tells of Tsukuru visiting each of the friends in turn and learning how their lives have turned out and what happened in the past. It reveals how events and relationships can affect a person's life and future relationships.
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Cutting for Stone
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Abraham Verghese
W Krauss
, January 01, 2011
Epic in scope, beautiful writing and imagery, great medical details, fantastic characters- a lovely book, touching and inspired.
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
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Jamie Ford
W Krauss
, April 05, 2010
This is a beautiful book! It is the story of Henry, a Chinese-American boy, and his friend Keiko, a Japanese-American girl. They become friends in the (almost) all-white Seattle school they attend, where they are both "scholarshipping", working in the kitchen of the school. He must keep their friendship a secret from his father, a traditional Chinese man, obsessed with the war in the Pacific during WWII. Japan is the enemy and he works to raise money for Chinese relief organizations. When Keiko and her family are taken to an internment camp, they and other families leave their belongings in the Panama Hotel, in the Japanese area of Seattle. Forty years later, Henry observes these belonging being removed from the basement of the hotel as they are brought up during a renovation. This brings him to recall the past and his time with Keiko. His present life is juxaposed against his past, as he struggles to make sense of what happened during that period of our history. With Henry as our guide, we experience a period in Seattle history, in our nation's history, that was not one of our finer moments.
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