South of the Border, West of the Sun
- South of the Border, West of the Sun
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name = South of the Border, West of the Sun
title_orig = 国境の南、太陽の西
"Kokkyō no minami, taiyō no nishi"
translator =
author = Haruki Murakami
cover_artist =
country = Japan
language = Japanese
series =
genre = Novel
publisher = Vintage (English Edition)
pub_date = 1992
english_pub_date = 2000
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 192 pages
isbn = ISBN 0-09-944857-2 nihongo|"South of the Border, West of the Sun"|国境の南、太陽の西|Kokkyō no minami, taiyō no nishi is a short, melancholic novel written in 1992 by the popular Japanese novelist, Haruki Murakami. The English translation by Philip Gabriel was released in 2000.
It tells the story of Hajime, starting from his childhood in a small town in Japan. Here he meets a girl, Shimamoto, who is also an only child and suffers from polio, which causes her to drag her leg as she walks. They spend most of their time together talking about their interests in life and listening to records on Shimamoto’s stereo. They join different high schools and grow apart. They are reunited again at the age of 36, Hajime now the father of two children and owner of two successful jazz bars in the trendy part of Tokyo. With Shimamoto never giving any detail as to her own life and appearing only at random intervals, she haunts him as a constant ‘what if’. Despite his current situation, meeting Shimamoto again sets off a chain of events that eventually forces Hajime to choose between his wife and family or attempting to recapture the magic of the past.
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