South of the Border, West of the Sun

Salih's example of Murakami pushing the double-life theme to its limit as the protagonist nearly leaves and betrays his wife. Also the book at the center of the Literarisches Quartett row that led to German retranslations from Japanese. In Tamir's top list.

Where it appears 1

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  the forbidden wonderland of murakamiEp 10 · with Salih Yayar

  Listen at 41:08Read it in the transcript

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Written by

• Haruki Murakami

Related

• Das Literarische Quartett

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