Combining the seductions of Norwegian Wood with the complex mysteries of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, here is Murakami at his most intriguing, mystifying, and satisfying.
In an urbane Japan of jazz bars, coffee shops, Jack Kerouac and the Beatles, our narrator, a college student, falls in love with his classmate, Summire. But devotion to an untidy writerly life precludes any personal commitments-until she meets Miu, a sophisticated businesswoman.
Together, Summire and Miu travel to an island off the coast of Greece, where Summire disappears. Our narrator, recruited to join the search party, is then drawn back into this tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited love. In the guise of a story about a search for a missing-person, Sputnik Sweetheart ultimately lingers in the mind as a profound meditation on human longing.
"Murakami is a world-class writer who has both eyes open and takes big risks."-The Washington Post Book World
"Grabs you from the opening lines…. He's never written anything more openly emotional."-Los Angeles Magazine
"An agonizing, sweet story about the power and the pain of love…immensely deepened by perfect little images that leave much to be filled in by the reader's heart or eye."-The Baltimore Sun
"Elegant…. Murakami has an unmatched gift for turning psychological metaphors into uncanny narratives."-The New York Times Book Review
