Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection. But when his family moved away, the two lost touch. Now Hajime is in his thirties. After a decade of drifting he has found happiness... (展开全部) Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection. But when his family moved away, the two lost touch. Now Hajime is in his thirties. After a decade of drifting he has found happiness with his loving wife and two daughters, and success running a jazz bar. Then Shimamoto reappears. She is beautiful, intense, enveloped in mystery. Hajime is catapulted into the past, putting at risk all he has in the present.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo.
《国境以南,太阳以西》是村上作品中我最喜欢的,对英文翻译难免多留意看了一下。还是不错的。中意的是下面两段。
" We stood in front of a door we'd never seen before. The two of us alone, beneath a glimmer of light, ......