Sputnik Sweetheart

by Murakami, Haruki | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published 07/05/2026 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 256 pages
197 x 128 x 18mm | 182g

A mystery story about love, the cosmos and other fictional universes.

Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. 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...

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR'Confirms Murakami as a master of his craft... Out of this world' Time Out