Sputnik Sweetheart
Editorial HARVILL SECKER
Mainland Spain
- Publisher HARVILL SECKER
- ISBN13 9781529913569
- ISBN10 152991356X
- Type BOOK
- Pages 256
- Published 2023
- Language English
- Bookbinding Hard cover
Subjects
English LiteratureSputnik Sweetheart
Editorial HARVILL SECKER
Mainland Spain
Book details
A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's classic mystery story about love, the cosmos and other fictional universes, now with a new introduction by the authorSumire 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