TMM presents 5 Min Summary of South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami

South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami is a story of childhood soulmates, who drift apart in adolescence before meeting again years later. Hajime, our narrator, and Shimamoto meet as children and, as two rare only children in their neighbourhood, they naturally develop a bond; but, as time progresses, this bond deepens to something fuller. They listen to music and talk for hours about everything and anything, with searching intensity and without self-consciousness; but, when his family moves away, they eventually lose touch. As is often the case with Murakami’s protagonists, in the following years he perfectly captures Hajime’s heady, self-centred concerns, from adolescence into early adulthood. After years without direction, and failed or meaningless relationships where he has caused great hurt, Hajime has finally settled down with a loving and patient wife, and two children; this is when Shimamoto reappears in his life under strange circumstances, beautiful and enveloped in mystery, throwing the real value of everything he has built up into question. What follows is a quietly intense and deeply moving story as Hajime tries to understand what has happened, in both her life and his, in these missing years.

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