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A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's classic mystery story about love, the cosmos and other fictional universes, now with a new introduction by the author Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. Miu is glamorous and successful. Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life: what is sexual desire, and should she ever tell Miu how she feels for her? Meanwhile K wonders whether he should confess his own unrequited love for Sumire. Then, a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek island: Sumire has mysteriously vanished... 'Confirms Murakami as a master of his craft... Out of this world' Time Out
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Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami
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- Released
- 2023
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- Title
- Sputnik Sweetheart
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Haruki Murakami
- Publisher
- Random House UK Ltd
- Released
- 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN10
- 152991356X
- ISBN13
- 9781529913569
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary Romance, LGBTQ+, Literary Fiction, Japan, LGBTQ+ Romance, Japanese Literature, Magical Realism, Greece
- First published
- 1999
- Original title
- Spútoniku no koibito
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's classic mystery story about love, the cosmos and other fictional universes, now with a new introduction by the author Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. Miu is glamorous and successful. Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life: what is sexual desire, and should she ever tell Miu how she feels for her? Meanwhile K wonders whether he should confess his own unrequited love for Sumire. Then, a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek island: Sumire has mysteriously vanished... 'Confirms Murakami as a master of his craft... Out of this world' Time Out