South of the Border, West of the Sun Roden is diagnosed with a rare

is diagnosed with a rare disorder that will soon cause her to go deaf

Hugo sweeps readers from the French provinces to the back alleys of Paris

and baffling demands of his overlords in order to stay alive

state-sanctioned whippings

As she revisits the city

South of the Border, West of the Sun Roden is diagnosed with a rareSouth of the Border, West of the Sun is the beguiling story of a past rekindled, and one of Haruki Murakamis most touching novels. Hajime has arrived at middle age with a loving family and an enviable career, yet he feels incomplete. When a childhood friend, now a beautiful woman, shows up with a secret from which she is unable to escape, the fault lines of doubt in Hajimes quotidian existence begin to give way. Rich, mysterious, and quietly dazzling,