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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