Sputnik Sweetheart

Sputnik Sweetheart has touched me deeper and pushed me further than anything I’ve read in a long time — Julie Myerson ― Guardian

How does Murakami manage to make poetry while writing of contemporary life and emotions? I am weak-kneed with admiration ― Independent on Sunday

A beautiful novel, as light as a feather, and yet enduringly sad… a captivating book from one of the world’s most interesting authors ― Sunday Herald

Murakami has been compared to everyone from Raymond Carver to Raymond Chandler – which should tell you only one thing: he’s unique ― Independent

Confirms Murakami as a master of his craft… Out of this world ― Time Out

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers’ award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon.