Sputnik Sweetheart : Roman

"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."--BOOK JACKET. 1......Page 6 2......Page 41 3......Page 51 4......Page 60 5......Page 82 6......Page 105 7......Page 120 8......Page 147 9......Page 164 10......Page 184 11......Page 195 12......Page 212 13......Page 242 14......Page 260 15......Page 271 16......Page 302 Eine Liebesgeschichte und ein Krimi, ein Buch voller Geheimnisse und nicht zuletzt eine verspielte Meditation über die menschliche Existenz In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.