Sputnik sweetheart
Murakami, Haruki, 1949-2006
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K, a primary school teacher, is in love with Sumire. But Sumire is in love with an older woman - Miu. Frustrated, K has an affair with the mother of one of his pupils. Then Miu asks him to meet her as something very strange has happened to Sumire. 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 whether he should confess his own unrequited love for Sumire.Then, a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek island: Sumire has mysteriously vanished...'Confirms Murakami as a master of his craft... Out of this world' Time Out
Main title:
Sputnik sweetheart / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.
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Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2002.
Collation:
229 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
This translation originally published: London: Harvill, 2001.
ISBN:
9780099448471 (pbk)
Dewey class:
895.635
LC class:
PL856.U673
Language:
EnglishJapanese
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BRN:
72661