- Published: 1 April 2003
- ISBN: 9780099448570
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 192
- RRP: $22.99
South of the Border, West of the Sun
- Published: 1 April 2003
- ISBN: 9780099448570
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 192
- RRP: $22.99
A story of love in a cool climate, intensely romantic and weepily beautiful...it is startlingly different: a true original
Guardian
Casablanca remade Japanese style...It is dream-like writing, laden with scenes which have the radiance of a poem
The Times
This wise and beautiful book is full of hidden truths
New York Times
This book aches...an eloquent treatise on the vertiginous, irrational powers of love and desire
Independent on Sunday
Impressively written and structured... Above all, the novel is memorable for its unflinchingly extreme treatment of romantic love
Times Literary Supplement
Discover what a fine writer Murakami is with this engrossing examination of a male mid-life crisis... He enthrallingly teases out the risks, culminating in a headily sensual finale
Time Out
A beautiful, atmospheric novel sustained by Murakami's flair for philosophical mediation at its most human
Irish Times
A wise and beautiful book.
The New York Times Book Review
A probing meditation on human fragility, the grip of obsession, and the impenetrable, erotically charged enigma that is the other.
The New York Times
Brilliant. . . . A mesmerizing new example of Murakami's deeply original fiction.
The Baltimore Sun
Lovely, deceptively simple. . . . A novel of existential romance.
San Francisco Chronicle
His most deeply moving novel.
The Boston Globe
Mesmerizing. . . . This is a harrowing, a disturbing, a hauntingly brilliant tale.
The Baltimore Sun
A fine, almost delicate book about what is unfathomable about us.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Portrayed in a fluid language that veers from the vernacular . . . to the surprisingly poetic.
San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle