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.
##“I always feel like I’m struggling to become someone else. Like I’m trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life, a new personality. I guess it’s part of growing up, yet it’s also an attempt to reinvent myself. By becoming a different me, I could free myself of everything. I seriously believed I could escape myself- as long as I made the effort. But I always hit a dead end. No matter where I go, I still end up me. What’s missing never changes. The scenery may change, but I’m still the same old incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that I can never satisfy. I guess that lack itself is as close as I’ll come to define myself. For your sake, I’d like to become a new person. It may not be easy, but if I give it my best shot, perhaps I can manage to change. The truth is, though, if put in the same situation again, I might very well do the same thing all over. I might very well hurt you all over again. I can’t promise anything. That’s what I meant when I said I had no right. I just don’t have the confidence to win over that force in me.” — Haruki Murakami; South of the Border, West of the Sun
评分##重读依旧感动,岛本这样一个神秘的女人永远不会褪去魅力
评分##仗着之前读过两遍简体版一遍中文版的印象,把英文版啃下来了。其实整体的行文都很简单,风格更像所谓的村上的风格。
评分##重读依旧感动,岛本这样一个神秘的女人永远不会褪去魅力
评分##和Shimamoto的婚外情不喜欢 没感觉是多吸引的感情 体会不了 Yukkiko太好了
评分##像是意外捡到的宝石 原来竟写过这样的作品 发条鸟是我钟爱的对超现实与大部头的尝试 寻羊是村上路线的确立 同意某评论所讲是一定阶段的集大成作的观点 勇敢地对扁平化的现代都市进行描写 而又总能写出那般共鸣的孤独 这是了不起的
评分##作为英文译本, 它是直接的、简单的,可能不复有原文或中译的东方文学的晦涩、委婉距离。很喜欢书名,它广阔、无限,读完后却要你nowhere to go。村上的书常常从后半部起会牢牢拴住你,从细流汇入海洋,集尘土为沙漠的总总孤独终将你吞噬。“Shimamoto-san,”
评分##如果改成一个sensational一点的书名的话,《中年男子出轨迷情记》挺合适
评分##微雨中逛CHATERHOUSE得,标价人民币132元。还有一本MURAKAMI DIARY 2009,添加条目时豆瓣说不存在,只好放弃。
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