South of the Border, West of the Sun
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is a short, melancholic novel written in 1992 by the popular Japanese novelist, Haruki Murakami. The English translation by Philip Gabriel was released in 2000.
It tells the story of Hajime, starting from his childhood in a small town in Japan. Here he meets a girl, Shimamoto, who is also an only child and suffers from polio, which causes her to drag her leg as she walks. They spend most of their time together talking about their interests in life and listening to records on Shimamoto’s stereo...
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