Sputnik Sweetheart (2026 Vintage Arrow Edition) - Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

Meet Murakami in Vintage Classics - new, jazz-soaked, nostalgically surreal red spine editions of one of our great visionary storytellers. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR.

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...