South of the Border, West of The Sun

Novel by Haruki Murakami

South of the Border, West of the Sun is a fiction about lost love of the past and a mid life crisis of a Tokyo businessman. Murakami's literate poetic language tells the story surrounded with an old jazz ambiance. The story takes us inside the quirky mind of Hajime who lives in Tokyo. Hajime in his mid-life is a husband with one daughter and an owner of a successfull Jazz Club in Tokyo's trendy area. He is full with longing of an undying childhood romance with Shimamoto who he has not seen since childhood during post war Japan. The story is told in a cool romantic that radiate something of a literate poem where the couple now both live in modern Tokyo and successful found renewed sensualities with certain dark complexities of the past. Available locally at Aksara Prodak book store Kemang, Jakarta.