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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100375411690
ISBN-139780375411694
eBay Product ID (ePID)1800424
Product Key Features
Original LanguageJapanese
Book TitleSputnik Sweetheart : Roman
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicRomance / Contemporary, Literary
Publication Year2001
GenreFiction
AuthorHaruki Murakami
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight14.4 Oz
Item Length8.7 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-062004
Reviews"Grabs you from its opening lines. . . . [Murakami's] never written anything more openly emotional." Los Angeles Magazine "Murakami is a genius." Chicago Tribune "Murakami has an unmatched gift for turning psychological metaphors into uncanny narratives." The New York Times Book Review "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 "[Murakami belongs] in the topmost rank of writers of international stature." Newsday "Murakami's true achievement lies in the humor and vision he brings to even the most despairing moments." The New Yorker "Perhaps better than any contemporary writer, [Murakami] captures and lays bare the raw human emotion of longing." BookPage "Murakami . . . has a deep interest in the alienation of self, which lifts [Sputnik Sweetheart] into both fantasy and philosophy." San Francisco Chronicle "Not just a great Japanese writer but a great writer, period." Los Angeles Times Book Review
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal895.6/3/5
SynopsisCombining the early, straightforward seductions ofNorwegian Wood and the complex mysteries ofThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, this new novel-his seventh translated into English-is Haruki Murakami at his most satisfying and representative best. The scenario is as simple as it is uncomfortable: a college student falls in love (once and for all, despite everything that transpires afterward) with a classmate whose devotion to Kerouac and an untidy writerly life precludes any personal commitments-until she meets a considerably older and far more sophisticated businesswoman. It is through this wormhole that she enters Murakami's surreal yet humane universe, to which she serves as guide both for us and for her frustrated suitor, now a teacher. In the course of her travels from parochial Japan through Europe and ultimately to an island off the coast of Greece, she disappears without a trace, leaving only lineaments of her fate: computer accounts of bizarre events and stories within stories. The teacher, summoned to assist in the search for her, experiences his own ominous, haunting visions, which lead him nowhere but home to Japan-and there, under the expanse of deep space and the still-orbiting Sputnik, he finally achieves a true understanding of his beloved. A love story, a missing-person story, a detective story-all enveloped in a philosophical mystery-and, finally, a profound meditation on human longing.
LC Classification NumberPL856.U673S8713 2001
