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Sputnik Sweetheart
- Author
- Haruki Murakami
- Narrator
- Adam Sims
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 11 March 2021
- Run Time
- 7 hours 7 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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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
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Sputnik Sweetheart has touched me deeper and pushed me further than anything I've read in a long time
Guardian
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How does Murakami manage to make poetry while writing of contemporary life and emotions? I am weak-kneed with admiration
Independent on Sunday
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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
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Murakami has been compared to everyone from Raymond Carver to Raymond Chandler - which should tell you only one thing: he's unique
Independent
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Confirms Murakami as a master of his craft... Out of this world
Time Out
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Grabs you from its opening lines. . . . [Murakami's] never written anything more openly emotional.
Los Angeles Magazine
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Murakami is a genius.
Chicago Tribune
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Murakami has an unmatched gift for turning psychological metaphors into uncanny narratives. -
The New York Times Book Review
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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
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[Murakami belongs] in the topmost rank of writers of international stature.
Newsday
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Details
- Author
- Haruki Murakami
- Narrator
- Adam Sims
- Duration
- 7 hours 7 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 March 2021
- ISBN
- 9781473596085
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Fiction in translation, Modern and Contemporary romance, Narrative theme: coming of age
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. 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
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