South of the Border, West of the Sun.

MURAKAMI, Haruki.

Item Number: 131325

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

First edition of one of Murakami’s most touching novels. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Haruki Murakami and three times by jacket illustrator Chip Kid, once below Murakami’s, on the front panel and on the rear flap. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd and Kapo Ng. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. A unique example.

Hajime has arrived at middle age with a loving family and an enviable career, yet he feels incomplete. When a childhood friend, now a beautiful woman, shows up with a secret from which she is unable to escape, the fault lines of doubt in Hajime’s quotidian existence begin to give way. Rich, mysterious, and quietly dazzling, in South of the Border, West of the Sun the simple arc of one man’s life becomes the exquisite literary terrain of Murakami’s remarkable genius.