by Haruki Murakami · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780679767398
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«South of the Border, West of the Sun» is the novel by Haruki Murakami, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group in paperback (213 pages, in English).
Hajime, born in 1951 in Tokyo, runs two jazz clubs and leads a comfortable life with his wife and two daughters, though he feels inauthentic. When Shimamoto, his wise and solitary childhood friend, reappears one rainy night as a beautiful and enigmatic woman, the past returns and unsettles his present.
The novel was originally published in Japanese in 1992; this English edition, translated by Philip Gabriel, appeared in 2000.
A read for those who enjoy literary fiction and contemporary Japanese narrative, with a story that combines love, memory, and the search for identity.
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.
