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Haruki Murakami

ISBN 0-099-44847-5

Fiction

'Sputnik Sweetheart has touched me deeper and pushed me further than anything l've read in a long time'

Julie Myerson, Guardian

Twenty-two-year-old Sumire is in love with a woman seventee/years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire'is an aspiring ;r who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a ter in a Kerouac

Surprised that she might, after all, be a lesbian, 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 about her.

Frustrated in his own love for Sumire, K consoÅ‚es himself by having an affair with the mother of one of his pupils. Their^a desperate Miu calls from a smali Greek island and asks for his help, and he discovers that something very strange has happened to Sumire.

'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

'This latest work confirms him as a master of his craft...Out of this world'

Time Out

'There is something bold and exhilarating about Murakami's writing'

New Statesman

Cover photograph © Nobuyoshi Araki

Calligraphy by Ruth Rowland

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099 448471

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UK £6.99

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