"South of the Border, West of the Sun" by Haruki Murakami. *****

• Audiobook
• Originally published in 2000
• Japanese author
• Review:  In his classic style, Murakami once again lures the reader with his dreamlike, lyrical prose into a story of love and loves.  He weaves a fabric of past and present, duty and dream, yearning and honor.  Hajimoto loves three women during his life, for different reasons, at different depths, and with different outcomes.  How does one choose between fantasy and responsibility?  How do we reconcile ourselves with the reality of our lives with the dream of what might have been?  Murakami has a way of taking the reader into the very fabric of a character's being and wrapping us in that fabric so that we are warmed and reassured that being human is a confusing, yet survivable condition. Fantastic!