5/12/2023 0 Comments Sputnik sweetheart![]() ![]() After Sumire flies off to Europe on a business trip with Miu, K. (another hint of Murakami’s love of Kafka), is in love with an ex-college friend, Sumire, who in turn is in love with her new boss, Miu, who isn’t in love with anyone, not even her husband, because of a strange event in her life fourteen years ago. ![]() ‘Sputnik Sweetheart’, at 220-something pages, falls into the last category and, like most Murakami works, sucks the reader in with a perfect description of the everyday before blind-siding them with something a little more, shall we say, bizarre. As any regular Murakami reader knows, the Japanese author likes to alternate between slightly odd short stories, big mind-boggling novels, and short novels which, in their own way, are just as nutty as the rest of his writing. ![]()
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