# Sputnik Sweetheart

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- Book: [Sputnik Sweetheart](https://www.bookquiver.com/haruki-murakami/sputnik-sweetheart) ([Sputnik Sweetheart.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/haruki-murakami/sputnik-sweetheart.md))
- Authors: [Haruki Murakami](https://www.bookquiver.com/haruki-murakami)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- Translated by: Philip Gabriel
- ISBN: 978-15-2998-233-6
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2026-05-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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