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

Synopsis

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.