具體描述
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.
用戶評價
##Lovers are born under unlucky star. That's why, always, tragedy-like uncomplete love is the only possible real love.
##“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
我在想是因為逃離瞭林少華大叔的翻譯，還是年紀長上來瞭，時隔5年終於能靜下心讀村上的書瞭。
##read it, AGAIN
##中文（林少華譯本）跟英文的風格完全不一樣。
##Loving her, and being loved, was the only way I could hold myself together.
##我艸 看瞭半天 ！原來是國境以南 太陽以西。。。這個封麵太萬惡瞭= =
##如果改成一個sensational一點的書名的話，《中年男子齣軌迷情記》挺閤適
##"Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. "