By Haruki Murakami
In South of the Border, West of the Sun, the straightforward arc of a man's life--with its attendant rhythms of luck and disappointment--becomes the beautiful literary terrain of Haruki Murakami's such a lot haunting paintings.
Born in 1951 in an prosperous Tokyo suburb, Hajime--beginning in Japanese--has arrived at heart age short of for nearly not anything. The postwar years have introduced him an excellent marriage, daughters, and an enviable profession because the owner of 2 jazz golf equipment. but a nagging feel of inauthenticity approximately his good fortune threatens Hajime's happiness. And a boyhood reminiscence of a smart, lonely lady named Shimamoto clouds his center.
When Shimamoto exhibits up one wet evening, now a wide ranging good looks with a mystery from which she is not able to flee, the fault strains of doubt in Hajime's quotidian life start to cave in. And the main points of stolen moments prior and present--a Nat King Cole melody, a face pressed opposed to a window, a handful of ashes drifting downriver to the sea--threaten to undo him thoroughly. wealthy, mysterious, quietly brilliant, South of the Border, West of the Sun is Haruki Murakami's wisest and so much compelling fiction.
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I’m a mother, and I have a child. I have no problem with that. But I can’t picture that child having any brothers or sisters. ” She was, without a doubt, a precocious girl. I feel sure she was attracted to me as a member of the opposite sex—a feeling I reciprocated. But I had no idea how to deal with those feelings. Shimamoto didn’t, either, I suspect. We held hands just once. She was leading me somewhere and grabbed my hand as if to say, This way—hurry up. Our hands were clasped together ten seconds at most, but to me it felt more like thirty minutes.
If my actions had been proper, after all, why the need for deception? I wanted to tell Izumi this: I wanted to sleep with your cousin; I wanted to screw her till my brains fried—a thousand times, in every position imaginable. It has nothing to do with you, I should have insisted from the start. But in reality I couldn’t say these kinds of things. That’s why I lied—repeatedly. I’d make up some excuse to break a date with her, then zip on down to Kyoto to ball her cousin. There was no getting around it—I was the one to blame.
Our friends were different, so were our uniforms and textbooks. My body, my voice, my way of thinking, were undergoing sudden changes, and an unexpected awkwardness threatened the intimate world we had created. Shimamoto, of course, was going through even greater physical and psychological changes. And all of this made me uncomfortable. Her mother began to look at me in a strange way. Why does this boy keep coming over? she seemed to be saying. He no longer lives in the neighborhood, and he goes to a different school.
