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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.
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##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
##成为婚外恋的初恋。| 翻译很好。
##算是我最喜欢的一本村上的书了。
##中文（林少华译本）跟英文的风格完全不一样。
我在想是因为逃离了林少华大叔的翻译，还是年纪长上来了，时隔5年终于能静下心读村上的书了。
##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
##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。
##“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
##By becoming a different me, I could free myself of everything.