Sputnik Sweetheart - Special Hardback Edition

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

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Sputnik Sweetheart has touched me deeper and pushed me further than anything I've read in a long time Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Haruki Murakami
• Assisted by: Haruki Murakami (Introduction)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.08.2023
• EAN: 9781529913569
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-1356-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Murakami Collectible Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japan, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary, Adult & contemporary romance, contemporary romance, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Relating to lesbians, FICTION / Romance / LGBTQ+ / Lesbian