First published in 1992 as 国境の南、太陽の西, (Kokkyō no Minami, Taiyō no Nishi)South of the Border, West of the Sunis the beguiling story of a past rekindled, and one ofHaruki Murakami’smost 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.Rich, mysterious, and quietly dazzling, inSouth of the Border, West of the Sunthe simple arc of one man’s life becomes the exquisite literary terrain of Murakami’s remarkable genius.°°°Haruki Murakamiwas born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, & one of the most recent of his many international honors is theCino Del Duca World Prize, whose previous recipients includeJorge Luis Borges,Ismail Kadare,Mario Vargas Llosa, andJoyce Carol Oates.