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South of the Border, West of the Sun By Haruki Murakami
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Title
- South of the Border, West of the Sun
- ISBN
- 9780375402517
- Book Title
- South of the Border, West of the Sun
- Item Length
- 7.8 in
- Original Language
- Japanese
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Romance / Contemporary, General, Literary
- Item Width
- 5.3 in
- Item Weight
- 14.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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Following the massive complexity ofThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle--Haruki Murakami's best-selling, award-winning novel--comes this deceptively simple love story, a contemporary rendering of the romance in which a boy finds and then loses a girl, only to meet her again years later. Hajime--"Beginning" in Japanese--was an atypical only child growing up in a conventional middle-class suburb. Shimamoto, herself an only child, was cool and self-possessed, precocious in the extreme. After school these childhood sweethearts would listen to records, hold hands, and talk about their future. Then, despite themselves, in the way peculiar to adolescents, they grew apart, seemingly for good. Now, facing middle age, finally content after years of aimlessness, Hajime is a successful nightclub owner, a husband and father, when he suddenly is reunited with Shimamoto, propelled into the mysteries of her life, and confronted by dark secrets she is loath to reveal. And so, reckless with enchantment and lust, Hajime prepares to risk everything in order to consummate his first love, and to experience a life he's dreamed of but never had a chance to realize. Bittersweet, passionate, and ultimately redemptive,South of the Border, West of the Sunis an intricate examination of desire, illuminating the persistent power of childhood and memory in matters of the heart.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375402519
ISBN-13
9780375402517
eBay Product ID (ePID)
738536
Product Key Features
Book Title
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Original Language
Japanese
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Romance / Contemporary, General, Literary
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pl856.U673s68 1999
Reviews
Praise for The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: "A labyrinth designed by a master, at once familiar and irresistibly strange."--Janice P. Nimura, San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle Murakami [is] some kind of wizard...The apparent simplicity of his expression... nearly disguises the fact that The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is, in the most time-honored sense, an epic...Every character, every story, nearly every circumstantial detail, appears to connect with every other in some ectoplasmic cat's cradle."--Luc Sante, New York Mesmerizing...A major work...A love story one minute, a detective story the next, a psychological thriller, a New Age--ish bildungsroman, a sober chronicle of wartime atrocities, a meditation on historical guilt, and more, in dizzying succession...Murakami's most ambitious attempt yet to stuff all of modern Japan into a single fictional edifice." --Elizabeth Ward, Washington Post Book World A postwar successor [to] the Big Three of modern Japanese literature--Mishima, Kawabata, and Tanizaki...A cool forty-eight-year-old who once ran a jazz bar [and] has translated John Irving, Truman Capote, and Raymond Carver into Japanese, [Murakami] has been perfectly positioned to serve as the voice of hip, Westernized Japan...Yet none of his earlier books prepare one for his massive new Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which digs relentlessly into the buried secrets of Japan's recent past." --Pico Iyer, Time A bold and generous book...Straight-ahead storytelling [that] never loses its propulsive force...Western critics searching for parallels have variously likened him to Raymond Carver, Raymond Chandler, Arthur C. Clarke, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, Bret Easton Ellis, and Thomas Pynchon--a roster so ill assorted that Murakami may in fact be an original." --Jamie James, New York Times Book Review A beguiling sense of mystery suffuses The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and draws us irresistibly and ever deeper into the phantasmagoria of pain and memory... 'Every secret struggles to reveal itself,' Isaac Bashevis Singer once wrote. That's exactly what happens [here], and that's precisely why the book is so compelling and ultimately so convincing." --Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
97-049459
Dewey Decimal
895.6/35
Dewey Edition
21
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