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alternate cover can be found hereSumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas 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...
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Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami
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- Released
- 2002
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- Title
- Sputnik Sweetheart
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Haruki Murakami
- Publisher
- Random House
- Released
- 2002
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0099448475
- ISBN13
- 9780099448471
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Contemporary Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Literary Fiction, LGBTQ+, Japan, LGBTQ+ Romance, Japanese Literature, Magical Realism, Greece
- First published
- 1999
- Original title
- Spútoniku no koibito
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- alternate cover can be found hereSumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas 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...