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Sputnik sweetheart : a novel

The scenario is as simple as it is uncomfortable: a college student falls in love (once and for all, despite everything that transpires afterward) with a classmate whose devotion to Kerouac and an untidy writerly life precludes any personal commitments--until she meets a considerably older and far more sophisticated businesswoman. It is through this wormhole that she enters Murakami's surreal yet humane universe, to which she serves as guide both for us and for her frustrated suitor, now a teacher. In the course of her travels from parochial Japan through Europe and ultimately to an island off the coast of Greece, she disappears without a trace, leaving only lineaments of her fate: computer accounts of bizarre events and stories within stories. The teacher, summoned to assist in the search for her, experiences his own ominous, haunting visions, which lead him nowhere but home to Japan--and there, under the expanse of deep space and the still-orbiting Sputnik, he finally achieves a true understanding of his beloved.

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  • "Suputoniku no koibito"@it
  • "Sppūtpmiku-no koibito"@pl
  • "Suputoniku-no koibito"
  • "Sputnik sweetheart (Arabic)"
  • "Sputnik Sweetheart"@pl
  • "Sup̄utoniku no koibito"@it
  • "Supūtoniku-no koibito"@pl
  • "Sputnik sweetheart"@ja
  • "Sputnik sweetheart"

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  • "A male college student falls in love with a woman who, over the years, guides him in her travels, and then disappears without trace. Assisting in the search, he goes home to Japan, where he finally achieves a true understanding of his beloved."
  • "Cooler Realismus und Fantastik verbinden sich in der Geschichte von Sumire und Miu. Die eine ist eine junge weltfremde und romantische Möchtegernautorin, die andere eine siebzehn Jahre ältere erfolgreiche Geschäfsfrau. Unempfänglich ist Miu für das Begehren der jungen Frau, von der sie 'süßer Sputnik' genannt wird. Auf einer Reise durch Frankreich und Italien bis auf eine kleine griechische Insel verschwindet Sumire plötzlich - alle Spuren ihres Schicksals verlieren sich. Ein junger Lehrer, der die betörende Sumire liebt, findet Aufzeichnungen bizarrer Vorfälle und Geschichten in Geschichten, die auch ein Geheimnis von Miu in der Schweiz aufdecken. Mit Haruki Murakamis neuem Roman 'Sputnik Sweetheart' geraten wir an die Ränder der Wirklichkeit, aber auch wenn die Menschen auf getrennten Umlaufbahnen einsam wie ein Sputnik ihre Bahnen ziehen, gibt es noch eine andere Seite des Lebens: 'Wir brauchen nur zu träumen.'"
  • "K, a primary school teacher, is in love with Sumire. But Sumire is in love with an older woman - Miu. Frustrated, K has an affair with the mother of one of his pupils. Then Miu asks him to meet her as something very strange has happened to Sumire."
  • "The scenario is as simple as it is uncomfortable: a college student falls in love (once and for all, despite everything that transpires afterward) with a classmate whose devotion to Kerouac and an untidy writerly life precludes any personal commitments--until she meets a considerably older and far more sophisticated businesswoman. It is through this wormhole that she enters Murakami's surreal yet humane universe, to which she serves as guide both for us and for her frustrated suitor, now a teacher. In the course of her travels from parochial Japan through Europe and ultimately to an island off the coast of Greece, she disappears without a trace, leaving only lineaments of her fate: computer accounts of bizarre events and stories within stories. The teacher, summoned to assist in the search for her, experiences his own ominous, haunting visions, which lead him nowhere but home to Japan--and there, under the expanse of deep space and the still-orbiting Sputnik, he finally achieves a true understanding of his beloved."@en
  • "The scenario is as simple as it is uncomfortable: a college student falls in love (once and for all, despite everything that transpires afterward) with a classmate whose devotion to Kerouac and an untidy writerly life precludes any personal commitments -- until she meets a considerably older and far more sophisticated businesswoman. It is through this wormhole that she enters Murakami's surreal yet humane universe, to which she serves as guide both for us and for her frustrated suitor, now a teacher. In the course of her travels from parochial Japan through Europe and ultimately to an island off the coast of Greece, she disappears without a trace, leaving only lineaments of her fate: computer accounts of bizarre events and stories within stories. The teacher, summoned to assist in the search for her, experiences his own ominous, haunting visions, which lead him nowhere but home to Japan -- and there, under the expanse of deep space and the still-orbiting Sputnik, he finally achieves a true understanding of his beloved."@en
  • "Een jonge leraar is verliefd op een meisje, dat op haar beurt verliefd is op een 17 jaar oudere, getrouwde vrouw."
  • ""A college student, identified only as "K", falls in love with his classmate, Sumire. But devotion to an untidy writerly life precludes her from any personal commitments--until she meets Miu, an older and much more sophisticated businesswoman. When Sumire disappears from an island off the coast of Greece, "K" is solicited to join the search party and finds himself drawn back into her world and beset by ominous, haunting visions. A love story combined with a detective story, Sputnik Sweetheart ultimately lingers in the mind as a profound meditation on human longing."--Amazon."

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Russian language materials"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Powieść japońska"@pl
  • "Love stories"
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en

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  • "Moi liubimyin sputnik"
  • "Sputnik Sweetheart : Roman"
  • "스푸트니크의연인 = The Sputnik sweetheart"
  • "Moi ljubimyi sputnik"
  • "Les amants du Spoutnik"
  • "ספּוטניק אהובתי"
  • "Sputnik sweetheart : Roman"
  • "Sŭp'ut'ŭnik'ŭŭi yŏnin"
  • "Sputnik sweetheart"
  • "Moj ljubimyj sputnik"
  • "Spuṭniḳ ahuvati"
  • "スプートニクの恋人 = The sputnik sweetheart"
  • "El Meu amor Sputnik"@ca
  • "The sputnik sweetheart"
  • "스푸트니크의 연인"
  • "La ragazza dello Sputnik"@it
  • "La ragazza dello Sputnik"
  • "スプートニクの恋人 The Sputnik sweetheart"
  • "La ragazza dello sputnik"
  • "Moĭ li︠u︡bimyĭ sputnik"
  • "The sputnik sweetheart : a novel"
  • "Sputnik sweetheart : a novel"
  • "Sputnik sweetheart : a novel"@en
  • "Sputnik min elskede"@da
  • "Sputnik min elskede"
  • "Supūtoniku no koibito = The Sputnik sweetheart"@ja
  • "Supūtoniku no koibito = The Sputnik sweetheart"
  • "スプートニクの恋人"
  • "Sputnīk al-ḥabībh : riwāyah"
  • "Supūtoniku no koibito = The sputnik sweetheart"
  • "Người tình sputnik"
  • "Spoutnik agapēmenē"
  • "Sputnik Sweetheart Roman"
  • "スプートニクの恋人 = The Sputnik sweetheart"
  • "Supūtoniku no koibito [Texte imprimé] = The Sputnik sweetheart"
  • "Sputnik-rakastettuni"@fi
  • "Sputnik-rakastettuni"
  • "Supūtoniku no koibito"
  • "Supūtoniku no koibito"@ja
  • "Les amants du spoutnik"
  • "Moj ljubimyi sputnik"
  • "El meu amor Sputnik"
  • "Suputonikku no koibito = The sputnik sweetheart"
  • "Supūtoniko no koibito = The Sputnik sweetheart"
  • "Sputnik Sweetheart"@pl
  • "Sputnik Sweetheart"
  • "E dashura ime Sputnik : roman"
  • "Мой любимый sputnik"
  • "The sputnik sweetheart a novel"@en
  • "The sputnik sweetheart a novel"
  • "Sputnik, mi amor"
  • "Sputnik, mi amor"@es
  • "Sŭp'ut'ŭnik'ŭ ŭi yŏnin = The Sputnik sweetheart"
  • "Les amants du Spoutnik : roman"
  • "Spoetnikliefde"

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