South of the Border, West of the Sun
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Author | Haruki Murakami |
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Original title (if not in English) | 国境の南、太陽の西 Kokkyō no minami, taiyō no nishi |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Genre(s) | Novel |
Publisher | Vintage (English Edition) |
Released | 1992 (Japanese Edition), 2000 (English Edition) |
Media Type | Print (Paperback) |
Pages | 192 pages |
ISBN | ISBN 0-09-944857-2 |
Preceded by | Dance Dance Dance |
Followed by | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle |
South of the Border, West of the Sun (国境の南、太陽の西 Kokkyō no minami, taiyō no nishi?) is a short, melancholic novel written in 1992 by the popular Japanese novelist, Haruki Murakami. It tells of the reunion between two childhood sweethearts, Hajime and Shimamoto, the former having found success with the ownership of two jazz clubs, a marriage, and two daughters.