![]() K, as the narrator, sees through what is happening to Sumire and Miu in the entire novel, and as such has a healthy sense of balance with the world and himself, his feelings, his philosophies. ![]() K, her close male friend who is infatuated with her, calls Miu her Sputnik Sweetheart. Sumire is an aspiring writer, who falls in love for the first time with, not a man, but another woman, Miu, Korean, seventeen years her senior. ![]() If I did not make up my mind to deal with the theme of loneliness like it’s my closest neighbor knocking at my door., however, I would have had a nervous breakdown out of empathizing with the characters. And as it turned out,Sputnik Sweetheart hinges on the uncanny, and lonely. Sputnik Sweetheart (translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel) is the second Murakami novel I’ve read after Kafka on the Shore, which was my baptism of fire into Murakami’s perplexing world filled with unusual characters and dream-like events. “No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hiddenstrength.” – Jack Kerouac ![]() We haven’t had a new addition to the team in a while and we look forward to many more insightful reviews. Please welcome our newest reviewer Angelo. ![]()
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