Νότια των Συνόρων, Δυτικά του ‘Ηλιου

Growing up in a postwar Japanese suburb, Hajime had the feeling that everyone except him had siblings. His only close companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together, they spent long, languid afternoons listening to his father’s records. But when Hajime’s family moves away, the two children lose touch.

Now thirty-seven, Hajime has finally found happiness. After a decade of drifting, he has built a fulfilling life with his wife and two daughters and runs a successful jazz bar. Then Shimamoto unexpectedly reappears in his life.

Beautiful, passionate, and surrounded by an air of mystery, she awakens memories and desires that Hajime thought he had left behind. Drawn irresistibly back into the past, he begins to question the life he has built, putting everything he holds dear in the present at risk.

A haunting and intimate novel about first love, longing, memory, desire, and the choices that shape our lives, Νότια των Συνόρων, Δυτικά του ‘Ηλιου explores the powerful hold the past can have over the present.