“His most deeply moving novel.”
“Mesmerizing…. This is a harrowing, a disturbing, a hauntingly brilliant tale.”
“A fine, almost delicate book about what is unfathomable about us.”
“Portrayed in a fluid language that veers from the vernacular … to the surprisingly poetic.”
“Haunting and natural…. South of the Border, West of the Sun so smoothly shifts the reader from mundane concerns into latent madness as to challenge one’s faith in the material world … contains passages that are among his finest.”
“Haruki Murakami applies his patented Japanese magic realism–minimalist, smooth, and transcendently odd–to a charming tale of childhood love lost”