Publisher Description
South of the Border, West of the Sun is the beguiling story of a past rekindled, and one of Haruki Murakami’s most touching novels. Hajime has arrived at middle age with a loving family and an enviable career, yet he feels incomplete. When a childhood friend, now a beautiful woman, shows up with a secret from which she is unable to escape, the fault lines of doubt in Hajime’s quotidian existence begin to give way. Rich, mysterious, and quietly dazzling, in South of the Border, West of the Sun the simple arc of one man’s life becomes the exquisite literary terrain of Murakami’s remarkable genius.
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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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New York Times
About Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese author of fiction and nonfiction works. His books and stories have been bestsellers in Japan as well as internationally, with his novel Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage topping the New York Times bestsellers list in 2014. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages. Murakami is the recipient of numerous awards, including the World Fantasy Award, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, and the Jerusalem Prize.
About Eric Loren
Eric Loren works extensively as a voice artist. Originally from Boston, he trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. His theater work includes world and British premières in the West End, Royal Court, Soho, Kings Head, Bush, and Hampstead theaters. His television work includes Mr. Diagoras and the Dalek Sec in Doctor Who, as well as regular and guest leads in numerous series, and his film work includes Red Lights, Mr. Nice, The Fourth Kind, Until Death, and Saving Private Ryan.