Haruki Murakami - South of the Border, West of the Sun

Fiction/Literature/978-0-679-77543-0

“His most deeply moving novel.”

“Mesmerizing…. This is a harrowing, a disturbing, a hauntingly brilliant tale.”

“A fine, almost delicate book about what is unfathomable about us.”

“Portrayed in a fluid language that veers from the vernacular … to the surprisingly poetic.”

“Haunting and natural…. South of the Border, West of the Sun so smoothly shifts the reader from mundane concerns into latent madness as to challenge one’s faith in the material world … contains passages that are among his finest.”

“Haruki Murakami applies his patented Japanese magic realism–minimalist, smooth, and transcendently odd–to a charming tale of childhood love lost”

Copyright © 1998 by Haruki Murakami

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States of America by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in Japan by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo, in 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Haruki Murakami. This translation first published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1999.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows: Murakami, Haruki.

South of the border, west of the sun / Haruki Murakami

p. cm.

Translation of an unpublished work.

I. Title

PL856.U673S68 1998

895.6’35—dc21 97-49459 CIP

eISBN: 978-0-307-76274-0

Author photograph © Marion Ettlinger

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