South Of The Border, West Of The Sun
By (author) Murakami, Haruki
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By (author) Murakami, Haruki
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A story of love in a cool climate, intensely romantic and weepily beautiful...it is startlingly different: a true original
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Casablanca remade Japanese style...It is dream-like writing, laden with scenes which have the radiance of a poem
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This wise and beautiful book is full of hidden truths
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This book aches...an eloquent treatise on the vertiginous, irrational powers of love and desire
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Impressively written and structured... Above all, the novel is memorable for its unflinchingly extreme treatment of romantic love
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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
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A beautiful, atmospheric novel sustained by Murakami''s flair for philosophical mediation at its most human
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A wise and beautiful book.
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A probing meditation on human fragility, the grip of obsession, and the impenetrable, erotically charged enigma that is the other.
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Brilliant. . . . A mesmerizing new example of Murakami''s deeply original fiction.
Biographical note:
In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine 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, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, First Person Singular and The City and Its Uncertain Walls Murakami''s distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world''s most acclaimed and well-loved writers.
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''Casablanca remade Japanese-style'': a moving, thoughtful story of long-lost love and second chances
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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.
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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
Review quote:
A story of love in a cool climate, intensely romantic and weepily beautiful...it is startlingly different: a true original
Review quote:
Casablanca remade Japanese style...It is dream-like writing, laden with scenes which have the radiance of a poem
Review quote:
This wise and beautiful book is full of hidden truths
Review quote:
This book aches...an eloquent treatise on the vertiginous, irrational powers of love and desire
Review quote:
Impressively written and structured... Above all, the novel is memorable for its unflinchingly extreme treatment of romantic love
Review quote:
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
Review quote:
A beautiful, atmospheric novel sustained by Murakami''s flair for philosophical mediation at its most human
Review quote:
A wise and beautiful book.
Review quote:
A probing meditation on human fragility, the grip of obsession, and the impenetrable, erotically charged enigma that is the other.
Review quote:
Brilliant. . . . A mesmerizing new example of Murakami''s deeply original fiction.
Biographical note:
In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine 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, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, First Person Singular and The City and Its Uncertain Walls Murakami''s distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world''s most acclaimed and well-loved writers.
Promotional headline:
''Casablanca remade Japanese-style'': a moving, thoughtful story of long-lost love and second chances
