Sputnik Sweetheart

Meet Murakami in Vintage Classics - new, jazz-soaked, nostalgically surreal red spine editions of one of our great visionary storytellers.

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...

Sputnik Sweetheart, now with a new introduction by the author.

'Confirms Murakami as a master of his craft... Out of this world' – Time Out