by Haruki Murakami · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099448471
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«Sputnik Sweetheart» is the contemporary fiction and romance novel by Haruki Murakami, published by Vintage in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Sumire, a twenty-two-year-old aspiring writer, falls in love with Miu, a successful woman seventeen years her senior. In phone conversations with her friend K, a teacher, she reflects on desire and whether to confess her feelings; K harbours an unrequited love for her. When Miu calls desperately from a Greek island, Sumire has disappeared.
The original Japanese was published in 1999; the English translation is by Philip Gabriel and the Vintage edition came out in 2002.
For readers of contemporary Japanese fiction and stories of desire and unrequited love.
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Tanizaki Prize, Yomiuri Prize for Literature, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Noma Literary Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction, the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Princess of Asturias Awards.
