South of the Border, West of the Sun
- Author Haruki Murakami
- Narrator Eric Loren
- Publisher Random House
- Publish Date 1 January 1970
- Run Time 6 hours and 34 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships.
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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
A story of love in a cool climate, intensely romantic and weepily beautiful…it is startlingly different: a true original
Casablanca remade Japanese style…It is dream-like writing, laden with scenes which have the radiance of a poem
This wise and beautiful book is full of hidden truths
This book aches…an eloquent treatise on the vertiginous, irrational powers of love and desire
Impressively written and structured… Above all, the novel is memorable for its unflinchingly extreme treatment of romantic love
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
A beautiful, atmospheric novel sustained by Murakami’s flair for philosophical mediation at its most human
A wise and beautiful book.
A probing meditation on human fragility, the grip of obsession, and the impenetrable, erotically charged enigma that is the other.
Brilliant. . . . A mesmerizing new example of Murakami’s deeply original fiction.
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