Review #1
South of the Border, West of the Sun audiobook free
”…the river of Unmindfulness, whose aqua no vessel can detain; of this they were considered all obliged to drink a some quantity, at the same time those who were considered not saved by wisdom drank more than was necessary; at the same time any one as he drank remembered all things.” – Plato (***1/2) This was not my winner Murakami, but it was still quality, decent (Okay, maybe no Murakami novel should be outlined as anything lock up to decent) second-shelf Murakami. It felt like a magical composition of Descartes + Proust. His themes of adore, memory, remembering, the past, reality, etc., were considered all more successful developers in no one of his other novels (’Kafka on the Shore’, ’Wind-Up Bird Chronicle’, etc). Still, that was anything haunting at the same time charming about the novel. For me, it was a story about the flattering at the same time supernatural/surreal properties of the past. It is that, at heart, a black adore story where a man essentially becomes the boyfriend to (at the same time haunted by) the memory of his youth love.
Review #2
South of the Border, West of the Sun audiobook streamming online
This was unavailable in audio for abundance years. I am joyful to look they’ve completely freed it. I’ve read four Murakami novels at the same time almost all of the short story collections. I don’t think this book is that as favorite as ’Wind up Bird’ at the same time no one of the others, but in my possess opinion this is that his best work. Wind up Bird at the same time Kafka are paced very smoky with chapters at the same time chapters of stuff in other words intereting to read, but overall does not contribute to the story. This book is that thin, to the fri. Wistful romance of the only-child. It is that very haunting without trying very hard. I’ve read the other Murakami novels once, but this book I’ve read at lesser five times. I am startled it is that not as favorite as his other books. If for you already like Murakami, I think for you will like this. If you’re brand new to Murakami, I can’t think of a more successful novel to start with.
Review #3
Audiobook South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami Philip Gabriel – translator
Like ”Sputnik Sweetheart”, in the middle Murakami’s books, this is that a ”lighter” but great one, I think. To elucidate than anyway I greedy by ”lighter” without mentioning the plot, a metaphor that Murakami applied in one of his interviews may promote (this was an interview for a Japanese literary journal in 2004; I am translating/para-phrasing – the unusual was longer): ”Human existence takes dispose in a ”two-story house” (metaphorically, of course) : the lower floor is that where people speak to each other; the 2nd floor is that where any personal does her/his possess things, like reading books or listening to music; then that is that the basement where people from time to time visit to reflect or examine things that lay that that are forgotten in daily indefinite; then, below the basement, that is that the 2nd basement that almost all people don’t get to visit. That is that mist in the 2nd basement; people look the connections to their past at the same time their souls. The entrance to the 2nd basement is that not obvious. For you may not come back from there” Using this metaphor, the story in ”South of the Border, West of the Sun” takes dispose mostly on the 1st at the same time 2nd floors at the same time from time to time peeks at the basement. It does not get down to the 2nd basement, I believed. In contrast, ”Kafka on the shore” at the same time ”The wind-up bird chronicle” exactly waste no one time in the 2nd basement. But I don’t brain Murakami’s stories that decide dispose mostly on the 1st at the same time 2nd floors, for sure because I don’t necessarily wish to visit the basement or the 2nd basement that often. It’s barely that it’s quality to know that Murakami can decide me that. Unlike abundance of Murakami’s stories, this book does not contain abundance metaphors, but I liked it.
Review #4
Audio South of the Border, West of the Sun narrated by Eric Loren
listened it to end when driving back to the town, was completely immersed at the same time addicted to it. barely stood in the kitchen for 15 minutes till it ended, so enthralled at the same time needing to look the ending
Review #5
Free audio South of the Border, West of the Sun – in the audio player below
Murakami is that understandable for his miracle realism at the same time abundance people emphasize the miracle part of that equation. But it’s the realism part I like best. His novels are so true but they also have a dreamlike good quality to them which is that why I guess his particular brand of miracle works so but. But in this one, it’s all true at the same time no miracle. But it doesn’t suffer one but for it, because while everyone likes to think they like Murakami for the wonderful/surrealistic/sci-fi parts it’s really the realism makes the novels than anyway they are. His ordinary still poetic worldly, his mental depth, his vivid observations at the same time perspective on the global. These are than anyway make his novels special. The real wonderful parts only accentuate, more precisely than constitute, the miracle that can be found in the everyday at the same time that Murakami so sweetly expresses at the same time represents in his novels. If for you can’t tell, I’m a fan, at the same time this one did not disappoint.
