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South of the Border, West of the Sun
- Author
- Haruki Murakami
- Narrator
- Eric Loren
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 11 March 2021
- Run Time
- 6 hours 34 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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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.
© Haruki Murakami 1999 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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A story of love in a cool climate, intensely romantic and weepily beautiful...it is startlingly different: a true original
Guardian
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Casablanca remade Japanese style...It is dream-like writing, laden with scenes which have the radiance of a poem
The Times
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This wise and beautiful book is full of hidden truths
New York Times
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This book aches...an eloquent treatise on the vertiginous, irrational powers of love and desire
Independent on Sunday
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Impressively written and structured... Above all, the novel is memorable for its unflinchingly extreme treatment of romantic love
Times Literary Supplement
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Discover what a fine writer Murakami is with this engrossing examination of a male mid-life crisis... He enthrallingly teases out the risks, culminating in a headily sensual finale
Time Out
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A beautiful, atmospheric novel sustained by Murakami's flair for philosophical mediation at its most human
Irish Times
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A wise and beautiful book.
The New York Times Book Review
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A probing meditation on human fragility, the grip of obsession, and the impenetrable, erotically charged enigma that is the other.
The New York Times
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Brilliant. . . . A mesmerizing new example of Murakami's deeply original fiction.
The Baltimore Sun
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Details
- Author
- Haruki Murakami
- Narrator
- Eric Loren
- Duration
- 6 hours 34 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 March 2021
- ISBN
- 9781473596078
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: love / relationships
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. 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.© Haruki Murakami 1999 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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