South of the Border, West of the Sun Condition:Good as a teenage boy

as a teenage boy

and why they do the things they do

and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together

one in which an English-language educational system and commercial interests suppress indigenous languages and traditions

South of the Border, West of the Sun Condition:Good as a teenage boyBorn in 1951 in an affluent Tokyo suburb, Hajime has arrived at middle age wanting for almost nothing. The postwar years have brought him a fine marriage, two daughters, and an enviable career as the proprietor of two jazz clubs. Yet a nagging sense of inauthenticity about his success threatens Hajime's happiness. A boyhood memory of a wise, lonely girl named Shimamoto clouds his heart. In South of the Border, West of the Sun, the simple arc of a