##“I always feel like I’m struggling to become someone else. Like I’m trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life, a new personality. I guess it’s part of growing up, yet it’s also an attempt to reinvent myself. By becoming a different me, I could free myself of everything. I seriously believed I could escape myself- as long as I made the effort. But I always hit a dead end. No matter where I go, I still end up me. What’s missing never changes. The scenery may change, but I’m still the same old incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that I can never satisfy. I guess that lack itself is as close as I’ll come to define myself. For your sake, I’d like to become a new person. It may not be easy, but if I give it my best shot, perhaps I can manage to change. The truth is, though, if put in the same situation again, I might very well do the same thing all over. I might very well hurt you all over again. I can’t promise anything. That’s what I meant when I said I had no right. I just don’t have the confidence to win over that force in me.” — Haruki Murakami; South of the Border, West of the Sun

##读村上春树的小说总是需要发挥很大的想象力，读起来也比较费神，看完有时也有点莫名奇妙。对于《国境以南，太阳以西》读了两遍才逐渐理清了思路。 初12岁时遇到了的同学岛本，他们一起经历了一段美好的童年时光。 年幼的他们那时走得很近，但并没有任何很特别的接触。初只会在...  

##中文（林少华译本）跟英文的风格完全不一样。

##算是我最喜欢的一本村上的书了。