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    • I sat down in Border's one afternoon and pulled this book from the shelves. After a few pages, I decided that I'd get it.

      I just can't resist a story like the opening of this book. Back in the old days, you were still young, life was simple, and you had a childhood sweetheart. There was som ... Continue

      I sat down in Border's one afternoon and pulled this book from the shelves. After a few pages, I decided that I'd get it.

      I just can't resist a story like the opening of this book. Back in the old days, you were still young, life was simple, and you had a childhood sweetheart. There was something between you, yet there was nothing. To me, there is a magical charm in it.

      Of course the story then fast-forwards and changes completely. It remains a good novel, but personally I can't help feeling I am tricked into buying the book by the opening chapter...

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  • pthow said on Apr 8, 2007 about the Paperback edition

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Book Description

Following the massive complexity of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle--Haruki Murakami's best-selling, award-winning novel--comes this deceptively simple love story, a contemporary rendering of the romance in which a boy finds and then loses a girl, only to meet her again years later.

Hajime--"Beginning" in Japanese--was an atypical only child growing up in a conventional middle-class suburb. Shimamoto, herself an only child, was cool and self-possessed, precocious in the extreme. After school these childhood sweethearts would listen to records, hold hands, and talk about their future. Then, despite themselves, in the way peculiar to adolescents, they grew apart, seemingly for good.

Now, facing middle age, finally content after years of aimlessness, Hajime is a successful nightclub owner, a husband and father, when he suddenly is reunited with Shimamoto, propelled into the mysteries of her life, and confronted by dark secrets she is loath to reveal. And so, reckless with enchantment and lust, Hajime prepares to risk everything in order to consummate his first love, and to experience a life he's dreamed of but never had a chance to realize.

Bittersweet, passionate, and ultimately redemptive, South of the Border, West of the Sun is an intricate examination of desire, illuminating the persistent power of childhood and memory in matters of the heart.

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Paperback 192 Pages
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-10: 0099448572
ISBN-13: 9780099448570
Publisher: Vintage
Pub date: Jun 01, 2000
Dimensions: 19 cm x 13 cm x 2 cm Just how big is that?
Also available as: Hardcover
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