In South of the Border, West of the Sun, the simple arc of a man's life--with its attendant rhythms of success and disappointment--becomes the exquisite literary terrain of Haruki Murakami's most haunting work. Born in 1951 in an affluent Tokyo suburb, Hajime--beginning in Japanese--has arrived at
South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel: novel
โ Scribed by Murakami, Haruki
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2010;2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 158 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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SUMMARY: In South of the Border, West of the Sun, the arc of an average man's life from childhood to middle age, with its attendant rhythms of success and disappointment, becomes the kind of exquisite literary conundrum that is Haruki Murakami's trademark. The plot is simple: Hajime meets and fall
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