South of the Border, West of the Sun is the beguiling story of a past rekindled, and one of Haruki Murakami’s most touching novels.
Hajime has arrived at middle age with a loving family and an enviable career, yet he feels incomplete. When a childhood friend, now a beautiful woman, shows up with a secret from which she is unable to escape, the fault lines of doubt in Hajime’s quotidian existence begin to give way. Rich, mysterious, and quietly dazzling, in South of the Border, West of the Sun the simple arc of one man’s life becomes the exquisite literary terrain of Murakami’s remarkable genius.
A pretty standard and interesting read though it had it's boring parts. Notwithstanding that fact, it still kept me going, flipping page after page. It's interesting to read into the mind of Hajime yet he has a pretty normal character, in my opinion. Hm...it took me a few moments to really wrap my mind around the ending and I don't know what to really think about it. I think it's really messed up with how Shimamoto went about things, but that's just my opinion. Otherwise it's a good book~ I liked it overall.
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