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South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel (Audio) - Community Reviews back

by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
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runner
runner rated it 6 years ago
Hajime is a self made man. He owns two piano jazz bars has an adoring wife and two wonderful children. But Hajime has a problem he cannot get the image of his close childhood friend Shimamoto from his mind. One day many years later a beautiful elegant lady sits drinking in one of his bars. As he clo...
The Last Reader
The Last Reader rated it 10 years ago
Illuminati
Illuminati rated it 11 years ago
இரண்டு குழந்தைகளுக்கு தகப்பனான ஹஜிமேவுக்கு தன் இளவயதில் நிராசையாகிப் போன கனவு மத்திமவயதில் நிறைவேறும் வாய்ப்பு கிடைக்கிறது. அழகான மனைவி, அமைதியான குடும்பம், வளமையான வாழ்க்கை என எல்லாம் இருந்தும் அந்த நிராசையே அவனது வாழ்க்கையில் விவரிக்க முடியாத ஒரு வெற்றிடத்தை ஏற்படுத்துகிறது. அமைதியின்மைக்கும் தே...
Brain Gourmet
Brain Gourmet rated it 11 years ago
Having read three Murakami works, I thought he was easily distinguishable from all other authors, however, his books were hard to tell apart. They all deal with pretty much the same topics and have similar sets of characters (cats included!).South of the Border, West of the Sun is no exception. It h...
otakumom
otakumom rated it 11 years ago
This work deals with Hajime who again is a character who is somehow on the fringes of the mainstream or doesn't necessarily feel at home with mainstream society. To say that he is a happily married man is not accurate. He's a contently married man until his childhood friend and first love, Shimamo...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 12 years ago
e book G drive
the reader of books
the reader of books rated it 12 years ago
HARUKI STOLE MY DIARY!
bookwookiee
bookwookiee rated it 12 years ago
I have grown to love this book. When I first finished it, I thought, "meh." It wasn't quite the Murakami I knew and was looking for at the time. It's lacking a certain degree of weird. (There's some weird alright, but not the super crazy weird you might come to expect from Murakami.) With each passi...
nouveau
nouveau rated it 12 years ago
a love-hate novel?like a lot of murakami fans tend not to like this one?LOWEST RANKED Haruki Murakamibut i'm a fan(atic)... discovered him in my childhood...like in my east asian university library when he was still a specialist's thing...and so i went through my twentieth birthday reading about an ...
shenmi meiren
shenmi meiren rated it 14 years ago
It's a good story. Left me somewhat unsettled - as most of Murakami's books do.
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