Haruki Murakami: South of the Border, West of the Sun, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

Hajime ist nach Jahren der Ziellosigkeit erfolgreicher Jazz-Bar-Besitzer und Vater. Wie eine Halluzination taucht nach 25 Jahren Shimamoto, eine Freundin aus der Kinderzeit, bei ihm auf. Hajime ist fasziniert von dieser unfassbaren und geheimnisumwobenen Frau, die in ihm längst verloren geglaubte Saiten anrührt. Er ist sogar bereit, sein bisheriges Leben aufzugeben...
Ein Roman voller magischer Kraft, der auf fesselnde Weise vom Einbruch dämonischer Leidenschaft ins Leben erzählt.
' Casablanca remade Japanese-style': a moving, thoughtful story of long-lost love and second chances

Beschreibung

Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection. But when his family moved away, the two lost touch.

Now Hajime is in his thirties. After a decade of drifting he has found happiness with his loving wife and two daughters, and success running a jazz bar. Then Shimamoto reappears. She is beautiful, intense, enveloped in mystery. Hajime is catapulted into the past, putting at risk all he has in the present.

Rezension

"A story of love in a cool climate, intensely romantic and weepily beautiful...it is startlingly different: a true original" Guardian

Klappentext

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, which turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. His books became bestsellers, were translated into many languages, including English, and the door was thrown wide open to Murakami s unique and addictive fictional universe.
Murakami writes with admirable discipline, producing ten pages a day, after which he runs ten kilometres (he began long-distance running in 1982 and has participated in numerous marathons and races), works on translations, and then reads, listens to records and cooks. His passions colour his non-fiction output, from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running to Absolutely On Music, and they also seep into his novels and short stories, providing quotidian moments in his otherwise freewheeling flights of imaginative inquiry. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84 and Men Without Women, his distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring Murakami s place as one of the world s most acclaimed and well-loved writers.