Sputnik Sweetheart
- Author Haruki Murakami
- Narrator Adam Sims
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 7 hours and 7 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Contemporary romance, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age.
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What to expect
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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 -
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
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