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Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami
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Description for Sputnik Sweetheart
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.
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.
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Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099448471
SKU
V9780099448471
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About Haruki Murakami
In 1978, Haruki Murakami was 29 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Sputnik Sweetheart
Sputnik Sweetheart has touched me deeper and pushed me further than anything I've read in a long time
Julie Myerson
Guardian
How does Murakami manage to make poetry while writing of contemporary life and emotions? I am weak-kneed with admiration
Independent on Sunday
A beautiful novel, as light as a feather, and yet enduringly ... Read more
Julie Myerson
Guardian
How does Murakami manage to make poetry while writing of contemporary life and emotions? I am weak-kneed with admiration
Independent on Sunday
A beautiful novel, as light as a feather, and yet enduringly ... Read more