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South of the Border, West of the Sun

Haruki Murakami,

Philip Gabriel (Translator)

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Feb 14, 2022 gam s (Haveyouread.bkk) rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: unlikeable-characters

It's 2.5 stars, rounding down to 2

I am...a bit confused.

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■ This was my first Murakami book ever (finally!), and I'm not sure if I'm that impressed. I mean, I dived headfirst into this one without really knowing what I was getting into. And since his fandom is ginormous here where I live, I might be a bit biased and was like, expecting something a lot more than *this*.

□ For some reason, this book reminds me a bit of The Virgin Suicides, and David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. Especially on the male- ...more

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Oct 30, 2020 Ann rated it liked it

Shelves: 2020, rws-fall-20

A well-written, single-day read about a man having a midlife crisis. Not exactly anything I care about.

However, I feel like there are layers to this story that I am missing as a westerner. Pretty sure that Shimamoto was a ghost, or some spirit. I mean, no matter how you interpret her (real, imaginary, living, dead), Hajime is haunted by her. It does not really matter if that is a literal haunting or not.
But having recently watched Lovecraft Country, as the headed toward the cabin in the wood I w ...more

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