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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: 1FPJ; FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 172.
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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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099448471
SKU
9780099448471
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Haruki Murakami
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 ... 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