100,000+ Books, Games & Puzzles in-stock 🇳🇿

Overnight NZ-wide delivery on all in-stock orders 🚀

Sputnik Sweetheart

By Haruki Murakami
0.0 (0 reviews)
Brief Description
Meet Murakami in Vintage Classics - new, jazz-soaked, nostalgically surreal red spine editions of one of our great visionary storytellers. A mystery story about love, the cosmos and other fictional universes. Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. Miu is glamorous and... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
$2800
Pre-order
Releases 8th September 2026 (Approx. Date) Pre-order  "Sputnik Sweetheart" now to secure your copy from our first shipment

Found a better price? Request a price match

Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Description

Meet Murakami in Vintage Classics - new, jazz-soaked, nostalgically surreal red spine editions of one of our great visionary storytellers.

A mystery story about love, the cosmos and other fictional universes.

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...

Sputnik Sweetheart, now with a new introduction by the author.

'Confirms Murakami as a master of his craft... Out of this world' – Time Out

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529982336

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 May 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage Classics

Contributors:

  • Translated by Philip Gabriel

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 168g

Pages: 256

Collections

Classic Fiction Fiction General Fiction Haruki Murakami LGBTQ+ Literary Fiction Penguin Books Pre-order Books Pre-order General Fiction Pre-orders Pre-orders by Release Date

About the Author

Haruki Murakami (Author) 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, First Person Singular and The City and Its Uncertain Walls 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. Philip Gabriel (Translator) Philip Gabriel is the author of Mad Wives and Island Dreams- Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature and Spirit Matters- The Transcendent in Modern Japanese Literature and has translated many novels and short stories by Haruki Murakami and other modern writers. He is recipient of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature (2001) for his translation of Senji Kuroi's Life in the Cul-de-Sac, and the 2006 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for his translation of Murakami's Kafka on the Shore.

Also by Haruki Murakami

View all

More from General Fiction

View all

Why buy from us?

Book Hero is not a chain store or big box retailer. We're an independent 100% NZ-owned business on a mission to help more Kiwis rediscover a love of books and reading!

Service & Delivery

Service & Delivery

Our warehouse in Auckland holds over 80,000 books, toys, board games and puzzles in-stock so you're not waiting for your order to arrive from overseas.

Auckland Bookstore

Auckland Bookstore

We're primarily an online store, but for your convenience you can pick up your order for free from our bookstore, which is right next door to our warehouse in Hobsonville.

Our Gifting Service

Our Gifting Service

Books make wonderful thoughtful gifts and we're here to help with gift-wrapping and cards. We can even send your gift directly to your loved one.

The Latest at Book Hero

View all