South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel

South of the Border, West of the Sun is the beguiling story of a past rekindled, and one of Haruki Murakamis 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 Hajimes 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 mans life becomes the exquisite literary terrain of Murakamis remarkable genius.