Sumire murakami6/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Sumire, though, is in love with a beautiful, older woman, Miu, who does not, can not, return her affections. ![]() As his best friend, she is not averse to phoning at three or four in the morning to ask a pointless question or share a strange thought. The narrator, a teacher, is in love with the beguiling, odd Sumire. I inherited my copy of Sputnik Sweetheart after an old flatmate left it behind so I’ve kept it safe and found a good excuse to read it for Dolce Belezza’s Japanese Literature Challenge. I’ve read a few Murakami novels starting with when I was a young teenager and picked Dance, Dance, Dance off my Dad’s shelf – and while I wasn’t expecting such a dreamlike plot-line, I found it absorbing, curious and strangely addictive which lead me to read A Wild Sheep Chase, Kafka on the Shore, The The Wind-up Bird Chronicle and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. I remember wanting to read Sputnik Sweetheart when it first came out and I spotted it on the tables in the bookshops. ![]()
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