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Format: Paperback
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Author:
Haruki Murakami
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099448471
£8.99
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EAN: 9780099448471
Published: 4 Oct 2012
Sumire 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 has touched me deeper and pushed me further than anything I've read in a long time
- Guardian
A beautiful novel, as light as a feather, and yet enduringly sad... a captivating book from one of the world's most interesting authors
- Sunday Herald
Murakami has been compared to everyone from Raymond Carver to Raymond Chandler - which should tell you only one thing: he's unique
- Independent
This latest work confirms Murakami as a master of his craft... Out of this world
- Time Out
Grabs you from its opening lines. . . . [Murakami's] never written anything more openly emotional.
- Los Angeles Magazine
Murakami is a genius.
- Chicago Tribune
Murakami has an unmatched gift for turning psychological metaphors into uncanny narratives. -
- The New York Times Book Review
An agonizing, sweet story about the power and the pain of love. . . . Immensely deepened by perfect little images that leave much to be filled in by the reader's heart or eye.
- The Baltimore Sun
Murakami's true achievement lies in the humor and vision he brings to even the most despairing moments.
- The New Yorker
Perhaps better than any contemporary writer, [Murakami] captures and lays bare the raw human emotion of longing.
- BookPage
Murakami . . . has a deep interest in the alienation of self, which lifts [Sputnik Sweetheart] into both fantasy and philosophy.
- San Francisco Chronicle
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. He is the author of many novels as well as short stories and non-fiction. His works include Norwegian Wood, A Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, After Dark and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. His work has been translated into more than forty languages, and the most recent of his many international honours is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J.M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V.S. Naipaul.
