![]() ![]() I liked the cover and the title was interesting. ![]() I had purchased this book based on all the good reviews I've heard about Murakami in general. When I found that the March task for Hello Japan challenge was to read something by Haruki Murakami, I just had to pull out my one and only Murakami book in my tbr pile to finally read. ![]() A love story combined with a detective story, Sputnik Sweetheart ultimately lingers in the mind as a profound meditation on human longing. 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. But devotion to an untidy writerly life precludes her from any personal commitments–until she meets Miu, an older and much more sophisticated businesswoman. 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.Ī college student, identified only as “K,” falls in love with his classmate, Sumire. ![]()
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