Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
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"K, the narrator, is a sober, solitary, kind and intelligent young primary-school teacher in Tokyo. Sumire has dropped out of college and is bent on becoming a novelist. She smokes too much, clumps around in rough workboots and "an oversized herringbone coat from a second-hand shop" and wants to be a character in a Kerouac novel - "wild, cool, dissolute". Sumire and K are close, close friends - but platonic ones. In fact, Sumire believes she has fallen truly in love for the first time, with an enigmatic older woman called Miu who has given her a job in her wine company. Wondering whether this is the real thing - and does it mean she's lesbian? - Sumire chews the whole thing over with the long-suffering K, who listens willingly but has to bite his tongue because he is himself very much in love with Sumire. Always has been, always will be. But this is no straightforward will-they-won't-they-get-it-on story. The plot hots up: Sumire and Miu, who is innocent of Sumire's infatuation, go on a business trip together and end up on a Greek island for a short holiday. One night, K gets a call from a deeply distressed Miu begging him to come to the island immediately; it's something to do with Sumire. He drops everything and goes. "
beautiful tale of love and loneliness
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