Sputnik Sweetheart
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Sputnik Sweetheart
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Sputnik Sweetheart
A special hardback edition of Murakami's classic love story, Sputnik Sweetheart. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author.
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
Series: Murakami Collectible Classics
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Haruki Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart has been highly praised for its deep emotional impact and poetic prose, capturing the nuances of contemporary life. Critics have lauded its light yet enduringly sad narrative as captivating, underscoring Murakami's unique and masterful storytelling.

Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781529913569
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 03 August 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Contributors:
- Introduction by Haruki Murakami
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 24.0mm
Width: 143.0mm
Height: 225.0mm
Weight: 357g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Haruki Murakami (Author, Introducer) In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.
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