Author: Murakami Haruki
Translator: Hong-Bin Lim
Publisher: Munhaksasangsa
368 pages
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About This Book
Sputnik Sweetheart finds Haruki Murakami in his minimalist mode. Shorter
than the sweeping Wind-up Bird Chronicle, less playfully bizarre than A
Wild Sheep Chase, the author's seventh novel distills his signature
themes into a powerful story about the loneliness of the human
condition. "There was nothing solid we could depend on," the reader is
told. "We were nearly boundless zeros, just pitiful little beings swept
from one kind of oblivion to another."
The narrator is a teacher whose only close friend is Sumire, an aspiring
young novelist with chronic writer's block. Sumire is suddenly smitten
with a sophisticated businesswoman and accompanies her love object to
Europe where, on a tiny Greek island, she disappears "like smoke." The
schoolteacher hastens to the island in search of his friend. And there
he discovers two documents on her computer, one of which reveals a
chilling secret about Sumire's lover.
Sputnik Sweetheart is a melancholy love story, and its deceptively
simple prose is saturated with sadness. Characters struggle to connect
with one another but never quite succeed. Like the satellite of the
title they are essentially alone. And by toning down the pyrotechnics of
his earlier work, Murakami has created a world that is simultaneously
mundane and disturbing--where doppelgängers and vanishing cats produce a
pervasive atmosphere of alienation, and identity itself seems like a
terribly fragile thing. --Simon Leake
About The Author
Born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1949, Haruki Murakami grew up in Kobe and now
lives near Tokyo. The most recent of his many honors is the Yomiuri
Literary Prize, whose previous recipients include Yukio Mishima,
Kenzaburo Oe, and Kobo Abe. His work has been translated into
twenty-seven languages.
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