The narrator is a teacher whose only close friend is Sumire, an aspiring young novelist with chronic writer's block. Sumire is suddenly smitten with a sophisticated businesswoman and accompanies her love object to Europe where, on a tiny Greek island, she disappears "like smoke." The schoolteacher hastens to the island in search of his friend. And there he discovers two documents on her computer, one of which reveals a chilling secret about Sumire's lover.
Sputnik Sweetheart is a melancholy love story, and its deceptively simple prose is saturated with sadness. Characters struggle to connect with one another but never quite succeed. Like the satellite of the title they are essentially alone. And by toning down the pyrotechnics of his earlier work, Murakami has created a world that is simultaneously mundane and disturbing--where doppelgängers and vanishing cats produce a pervasive atmosphere of alienation, and identity itself seems like a terribly fragile thing. --Simon Leake --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
MY Opinion: This is such an amazing book!!! Once I read that someone said that the books from Murakami have the hability to sound like poetry and that is so true. I love how he develops characters and the themes he explores in his books. He has a great ability with words that just sucks you in. This a novel that you can read complete in one day because you want to know what happens next. But what I love the most is the fact that he shows his love for books and music in every book he writes. Now he is truly one of my favorite authors.
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