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Sputnik Sweetheart

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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

Critics Review

Sputnik Sweetheart has touched me deeper and pushed me further than anything I've read in a long time
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 sad... a captivating book from one of the world's most interesting authors
Sunday Herald
Murakami has been compared to everyone from Raymond Carver to Raymond Chandler - which should tell you only one thing: he's unique
Independent
Confirms Murakami as a master of his craft... Out of this world
Time Out
Grabs you from its opening lines. . . . [Murakami's] never written anything more openly emotional.
Los Angeles Magazine
Murakami is a genius.
Chicago Tribune
Murakami has an unmatched gift for turning psychological metaphors into uncanny narratives. -
The New York Times Book Review
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.
The Baltimore Sun
[Murakami belongs] in the topmost rank of writers of international stature.
Newsday
Author Haruki Murakami
Narrator Adam Sims
Duration 7 hours and 7 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781473596085
Format Audiobook
Publisher Random House
Genre Contemporary romance, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age
Availability AU, GB, IE

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