title: South Sun Rises: A Bilingual Poetic Narrative of the Borderland
author: Valentin Sandoval
description: "Valentin Sandoval's first book, SOUTH SUN RISES, pays tribute to the poetic lions before him
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  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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