Sputnik Sweetheart
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Sputnik Sweetheart
Narrated by:
Adam Sims
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Narrated by:
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Adam Sims
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
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
Critic Reviews
Sputnik Sweetheart has touched me deeper and pushed me further than anything I've read in a long time (Julie Myerson)
How does Murakami manage to make poetry while writing of contemporary life and emotions? I am weak-kneed with admiration
A beautiful novel, as light as a feather, and yet enduringly sad... a captivating book from one of the world's most interesting authors
Murakami has been compared to everyone from Raymond Carver to Raymond Chandler - which should tell you only one thing: he's unique
Confirms Murakami as a master of his craft... Out of this world
Grabs you from its opening lines. . . . [Murakami's] never written anything more openly emotional.
Murakami is a genius.
Murakami has an unmatched gift for turning psychological metaphors into uncanny narratives. -
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.
[Murakami belongs] in the topmost rank of writers of international stature.
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