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  South of the Border, West of the Sun (Harvill Secker) (Paperback) By (author) Haruki Murakami

  

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  Short Description for South of the Border, West of the SunGrowing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, Hajime and Shimamoto had been childhood sweethearts. The two eventually lost touch but now, in their thirties, they meet up again. Hajime, now a father and husband, finds himself catapulted into the past, risking all that he has in the present.
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  • Publisher: VINTAGE
  • Published: 01 December 2006
  • Format: Paperback 192 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780099448570 ISBN 10: 0099448572
  • Sales rank: 2,951

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• Growing up in the suburbs in 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.