In South of the Border, West of the Sun , the simple arc of a man's life--with its attendant rhythms of success and disappointment--becomes the exquisite literary terrain of Haruki Murakami's most haunting work.
Born in 1951 in an affluent Tokyo suburb, Hajime-- beginning in Japanese--has arrived at middle age wanting for almost nothing. The postwar years have brought him a fine marriage, two daughters, and an enviable career as the proprietor of two jazz clubs. Yet a nagging sense of inauthenticity about his success threatens Hajime's happiness. And a boyhood memory of a wise, lonely girl named Shimamoto clouds his heart.
When Shimamoto shows up one rainy night, now a breathtaking beauty with a secret from which she is unable to escape, the fault lines of doubt in Hajime's quotidian existence begin to give way. And the details of stolen moments past and present--a Nat King Cole melody, a face pressed against a window, a handful of ashes drifting downriver to the sea--threaten to undo him completely. Rich, mysterious, quietly dazzling, South of the Border, West of the Sun is Haruki Murakami's wisest and most compelling fiction.
##書寫的不錯,故事簡直就是無病呻吟沒事找事。
評分###想念永遠止於想念,生活還是要繼續。
評分##[I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else.]
評分##重新再看,這根本是群自私自利鬼的故事
評分##很好的一本書
評分村上君的書翻成英語簡直渾然天成呐
評分##大霧彌漫 清晰殘損的麵目
評分##更像是村上的半自傳,渣男在有錢嶽父的幫助下開瞭2酒吧,偶遇25年前的同學後激情復燃找瞭一堆理由為自己開脫剛要奮不顧身和愛人走天涯的時候,同學消失瞭。自我摺磨瞭一陣兒看沒啥結果又迴到瞭老婆身邊的故事。#四個字概括思想:no zuo no die
評分##hysteria siberiana. the one far away, always away