Classic & Older Gothic

South of the Border, West of the Sun

by Philip Gabriel

Hajime has achieved conventional success—a comfortable marriage, two daughters, his own jazz bars—yet feels fundamentally incomplete. When Shimamoto, his childhood friend and first love, reappears after decades, he's drawn toward a past that might undo everything he's built. Murakami's meditation on nostalgia, middle-aged longing, and the roads not taken.

More Classic & Older Gothic

• The Vile Village — Brett Helquist
• The Plague — Albert Camus
• The Wide Window — Lemony Snicket
• Sophie's World — Paulette Møller
• The Idiot — Frederick Whishaw
• Othello — William Shakespeare
• Death on the Nile — Agatha Christie
• A Streetcar Named Desire — Tennessee Williams

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