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"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Fiction, Novela, Maestros, Missing persons, Unrequited love, Women novelists, Businesswomen, Teachers, Lesbische Liebe, Bindungslosigkeit, Geschäftsfrau, Schriftstellerin, Social life and customs, Fiction, romance, contemporary, Japan, fiction, Near and far eastern fiction (fictional works by one author), Language and languages, Japan in fictionPlaces
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The sputnik sweetheart: a novel
2002, Vintage International
in English
- 1st Vintage International ed.
0375726055 9780375726057
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"In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life."
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