title: A Wild Haruki Chase: Reading Murakami Around the World
author: The Japan Foundation
description: <DIV>The Japan Foundation, the only organization in Japan engaged in international cultural exchange in every region of the world, is contributing to world peace by promoting dialogue and interaction between Japanese and other peoples through the medium of culture. It consists of 19 overseas offices in 18 countries, with headquarters in Tokyo, an office in Kyoto and two language institutes.</DIV>
zlib_text: **ACCLAIM FOR** **** HARUKl MURAKAMI’S  
   **SOUTH OF THE BORDER, WEST OF THE SUN**
  
  “His most deeply moving novel.”
  
   _–The Boston Globe_
  
  “Mesmerizing…. This is a harrowing, a disturbing, a hauntingly brilliant
  tale.”
  
   _–The Baltimore Sun_
  
  “A fine, almost delicate book about what is unfathomable about us.”
  
   _–The Philadelphia Inquirer_
  
  “Portrayed in a fluid language that veers from the vernacular … to the
  surprisingly poetic.”
  
   _–San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle_
  
  “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.”
  
   _–The New York Observer_
  
  “Haruki Murakami applies his patented Japanese magic realism–minimalist,
  smooth, and transcendently odd–to a charming tale of childhood love lost”
  
   _–New York_
  
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  **Table of Contents**
  
   _Cover_
  
   _Title Page_
  
   _Table of Contents_
  
   