South of the Border, West of the Sun

Twenty-five years later, the life of a successful jazz bar owner is interrupted by the return of his mystical childhood sweetheart – and a nearly forgotten passion reignites. But the ghost of death persistently watches over him. What happens if... you suddenly meet someone you once loved? Is there a chance to enter the same river twice?

«I have always been drawn to not the ordinary external beauty that can be summed up in a few physical parameters, but something else, hidden deep inside… I used to get a kick out of the mysterious and incomprehensible something that attracted me in the opposite sex. Let's call it magnetism. A mysterious force that draws, absorbs people against their will».

«South of the Border, West of the Sun» is the most piercing novel about love.

«...it is possible to inflict such a deep wound on a person after which nothing can be returned, nothing can be fixed. Sometimes just your existence is enough for this».
 
Haruki Murakami is the most famous and incredibly popular Japanese writer. All his books published in Russian have become national bestsellers, translated into many languages, and have received numerous literary awards around the world.