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Murakami, Haruki, 1949-
Subjects
Teachers -- Fiction.
Women novelists -- Fiction.
Businesswomen -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Unrequited love -- Fiction.
Japan -- Fiction.
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Murakami, Haruki, 1949-
Teachers -- Fiction.
Women novelists -- Fiction.
Businesswomen -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Unrequited love -- Fiction.
Japan -- Fiction.
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Sputnik
sweetheart
: a
novel
/ Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.
by
Murakami, Haruki, 1949-
Vintage International, 2002.
Call #:
FICTION MUR
Subjects
Teachers -- Fiction.
Women novelists -- Fiction.
Businesswomen -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Unrequited love -- Fiction.
Japan -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780375726057 (trade pbk.)
Uniform title:
Supuutoniku no koibito. English
Edition:
1st Vintage International ed.
Description:
210 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in Japanese as Supūtoniku no koibito: Tōkyō : Kōdansha, 1999. This translation originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
Translated from the Japanese.
Summary:
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.
Genre:
Japanese fiction -- Translations into English.
Psychological fiction.
Literary fiction.
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