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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.
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Critics
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powells published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010
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A Simpler, More Physical Kind of Empathy
Talking to Jay McInerney in 1992, the year South of the Border, West of the Sun was published in Japanese, Haruki Murakami said that he wasn’t so much an international writer, as a non-national writer: ‘You might call it the Japanese nature that rema ... (read full critics)
lrb published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010
7 Reviews
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beautiful book about life, fate and connections...
I love this book! One of Murakami's books I really like, and think about a lot...
The key plot of this book is about meeting your childhood friend and falling for her when reunited some 25 years later, which may not sound all that exciting. Yet to me it's all about the details Murakami is able to fi ... (continue)olivia said on Jan 23, 2011 | Add your feedback
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Siu Leung said on Oct 11, 2009 | Add your feedback
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Literary Eroticism
Murakami is so "literary" in feeling that one can forget how erotic and sexual almost every facet of the story is. This is a story of a long lost love returning and causing dark ripples and complications in a married man's life. It is eminently readable and the eroticism does add spice to the page t ... (continue)
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Book Details
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- English Books
- Paperback 187 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0099448572
- ISBN-13: 9780099448570
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Jun 01, 2003
- Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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| 9780099448570 | Paperback | $12.86 | $9.75 | The Book Depository |
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South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel
Review-a-Day Saturday, August 18th, 2007 Voice your opinion about this review by posting a comment on the Powells.com blog South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel by Haruki Murakami (Almost) All Will Be Revealed A review by David Hannon "My bir ... (read full critics)