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South of the Border, West of the Sun is the beguiling story of a past rekindled, and one of Haruki Murakami’s most touching novels.
Hajime has arrived at middle age with a loving family and an enviable career, yet he feels incomplete. When a childhood friend, now a beautiful woman, shows up with a secret from which she is unable to escape, the fault lines of doubt in Hajime’s quotidian existence begin to give way. Rich, mysterious, and quietly dazzling, in South of the Border, West of the Sun the simple arc of one man’s life becomes the exquisite literary terrain of Murakami’s remarkable genius.
Hajime has arrived at middle age with a loving family and an enviable career, yet he feels incomplete. When a childhood friend, now a beautiful woman, shows up with a secret from which she is unable to escape, the fault lines of doubt in Hajime’s quotidian existence begin to give way. Rich, mysterious, and quietly dazzling, in South of the Border, West of the Sun the simple arc of one man’s life becomes the exquisite literary terrain of Murakami’s remarkable genius.
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About Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and lives outside Tokyo. His most recent novel, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, won the Borders Original Voices Book of the Year Award for fiction, and was named an Editor's Choice by Booklist and a Notable Book by the New York Times Book Review. Murakami's novels Dance Dance Dance, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle--as well as The Elephant Vanishes, a collection of stories--are available in Vintage paperback.
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