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A love story, a missing-person story, a detective story -- all enveloped in a philosophical mystery -- and, finally, a profound meditation on human longing.
Vintage
April 2002
224 pages ISBN: 0375726055 Trade Size (reprint)
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Fiction | Mystery
Haruki Murakami, the internationally bestselling author of
Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, plunges us
into an urbane Japan of jazz bars, coffee shops, Jack
Kerouac, and the Beatles to tell this story of a tangled
triangle of uniquely unrequited loves. A college student, identified only as "K," falls in love
with his classmate, Sumire. But devotion to an untidy
writerly life precludes her from any personal
commitments--until she meets Miu, an older and much more
sophisticated businesswoman. When Sumire disappears from an
island off the coast of Greece, "K" is solicited to join the
search party and finds himself drawn back into her world and
beset by ominous, haunting visions. A love story combined
with a detective story, Sputnik Sweetheart ultimately
lingers in the mind as a profound meditation on human longing.
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