Name: South of the Border, West of the Sun By Haruki Murakami
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South of the Border, West of the Sun Summary

South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami

A moving, thoughtful story of long-lost love and second chances

Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection. But when his family moved away, the two lost touch.

Now Hajime is in his thirties. After a decade of drifting, he has found happiness with his loving wife and two daughters, and success running a jazz bar. Then Shimamoto reappears. She is beautiful, intense, enveloped in mystery. Hajime is catapulted into the past, putting at risk all he has in the present.

'Casablanca remade Japanese style...It is dream-like writing, laden with scenes which have the radiance of a poem' The Times

South of the Border, West of the Sun Reviews

A story of love in a cool climate, intensely romantic and weepily beautiful...it is startlingly different: a true original * Guardian *
Casablanca remade Japanese style...It is dream-like writing, laden with scenes which have the radiance of a poem * The Times *
This wise and beautiful book is full of hidden truths * New York Times *
This book aches...an eloquent treatise on the vertiginous, irrational powers of love and desire * Independent on Sunday *
Impressively written and structured... Above all, the novel is memorable for its unflinchingly extreme treatment of romantic love * Times Literary Supplement *

About Haruki Murakami

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, which turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. His books became bestsellers, were translated into many languages, including English, and the door was thrown wide open to Murakami's unique and addictive fictional universe.

Murakami writes with admirable discipline, producing ten pages a day, after which he runs ten kilometres (he began long-distance running in 1982 and has participated in numerous marathons and races), works on translations, and then reads, listens to records and cooks. His passions colour his non-fiction output, from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running to Absolutely On Music, and they also seep into his novels and short stories, providing quotidian moments in his otherwise freewheeling flights of imaginative inquiry. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84 and Men Without Women, his distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring Murakami's place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.

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GOR001266918

ISBN 13

9780099448570

ISBN 10

0099448572

Title

South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami

Author

Haruki Murakami

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

20000601

Number of pages

192

Prizes

N/A

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South of the Border, West of the Sun Haruki Murakami

South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami

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South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami

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About Haruki Murakami

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