South Of The Border, West Of The Sun

801 Words4 Pages
INTRODUCTION Nowadays, it goes without saying that only few people in our age like reading. It helps us to enrich our mind with knowledge, broadcast outlooks. Instead of they spend most of their time browsing in the internet, playing some computer games or just watching TV. So, I was not exception until I’ve begun reading Murakami. I wasn’t passionate reader before. When I began Murakami’s “South of the Border, West of the Sun” (it was one of my first books I’ve ever read), I could not stop reading it. It was so interesting, but there are a lot of intimate moments in this book. In general, this is the story of a boy named Hajime, growing up in Japan. All the book is about how he is searching meaning in his life. Shortly saying, Murakami surprised me at all. LITERATURE REVIEW As I marked out before the story is about an unusual child, Hajime, about his loves. The beginning of the novel tells about the progression of Hajime from his childhood. He is an only child at his family. In the 1950s, when he was growing up, only children were extremely rare in Japan and were frowned upon. Usually people thought about such boys that they were spoiled and arrogant. As for the story in more detail, Hajime become friends with his neighbor, Simamoto, who is also an only child. They spend all of their time together, and spend many afternoons at Simamoto’s house, listening to her father’s records. A favorite one is Nat King Cole. Probably one of the reasons they were such good friends is because they both are only children in their family. Young love does not quite progressive and at twelve years old Hajime’s family moved to another town and their fate separated when they began attending different junior schools, but the connection between the two was obviously a strong one. She remains on his mind long after. In high school Hajime has a girlfriend, Izumi. He

More about South Of The Border, West Of The Sun

Open Document