Sputnik Sweetheart

<p><b>A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's classic mystery story about love, the cosmos and other fictional universes, now with a new introduction by the author</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Then, a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek island: Sumire has mysteriously vanished...<br><br><b>'Confirms Murakami as a master of his craft... Out of this world' <i>Time Out</i></b></p>