by Haruki Murakami · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099448570
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«South of the Border, West of the Sun» is the contemporary fiction novel by Haruki Murakami, published by Vintage in paperback (192 pages, in English).
Hajime, an only child in postwar Japan, finds in Shimamoto, also an only child, his only companion; together they listen to her father's records until her family moves away. Years later, married, with two daughters and running a jazz bar, Shimamoto's reappearance drags him into the past and risks his present.
English translation of a Japanese novel; this Vintage paperback edition was published in June 2000.
For readers of contemporary fiction and stories of love and loss, as well as for fans of Haruki Murakami.
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.
