South of the Border, West of the Sun

Haruki Murakami (Philip Gabriel)
Vintage • 2006

Alternate cover edition here.Growing up in the suburbs of post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Toge...ther 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.
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1992 Po Nórskom dreve druhá kniha od Murakamiho, po ktorej som siahol a druhá kniha v poradí, ktorá vo mne vyvolala silné emočné pnutie. Úprimne neviem ako to autor robí, ale každé jeho dielo vás pohltí ako zámotok svoju larvu, drtí vás, vyciciava, no zároveň plní životodarnou miazgou, až pokiaľ vás nevypľuje ako znovuzrodeného motýľa plného života, o poznanie múdrejšieho, no často[...]

Alternate cover edition here.

Growing up in the suburbs of 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.