Sputnik Sweetheart

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Sputnik Sweetheart

Written by: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator

Narrated by: Adam Sims

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Brought to you by Penguin.

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...

© Haruki Murakami 2001 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Coming of Age

Contemporary

Genre Fiction

Literary Fiction

Romance

Critic Reviews

Sputnik Sweetheart has touched me deeper and pushed me further than anything I've read in a long time (Julie Myerson)

How does Murakami manage to make poetry while writing of contemporary life and emotions? I am weak-kneed with admiration

A beautiful novel, as light as a feather, and yet enduringly sad... a captivating book from one of the world's most interesting authors

Murakami has been compared to everyone from Raymond Carver to Raymond Chandler - which should tell you only one thing: he's unique

Confirms Murakami as a master of his craft... Out of this world

Grabs you from its opening lines. . . . [Murakami's] never written anything more openly emotional.

Murakami is a genius.

Murakami has an unmatched gift for turning psychological metaphors into uncanny narratives. -

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.

[Murakami belongs] in the topmost rank of writers of international stature.

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i love it completely.
narration, narrative, story ,plot.
all hearts for Adam and Murakami.