Sputnik Sweetheart (Vintage International)

Murakami, Haruki

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375726055 ISBN 13: 9780375726057

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2002

Book by Haruki Murakami

Críticas:

"Grabs you from its opening lines. . . . [Murakami's] never written anything more openly emotional." -Los Angeles Magazine

"Murakami is a genius." -Chicago Tribune

"Murakami has an unmatched gift for turning psychological metaphors into uncanny narratives." -The New York Times Book Review

"An agonizing, sweet story about the power and the pain of love. . . . Immensely deepened by perfect little images that leave much to be filled in by the reader's heart or eye." -The Baltimore Sun

"[Murakami belongs] in the topmost rank of writers of international stature." -Newsday

"Murakami's true achievement lies in the humor and vision he brings to even the most despairing moments." -The New Yorker

"Perhaps better than any contemporary writer, [Murakami] captures and lays bare the raw human emotion of longing." -BookPage

"Murakami . . . has a deep interest in the alienation of self, which lifts [Sputnik Sweetheart] into both fantasy and philosophy." -San Francisco Chronicle

"Not just a great Japanese writer but a great writer, period." -Los Angeles Times Book Review

Reseña del editor:

An unrequited love for a woman devoted to Kerouac and the writer's life leads a man on a quest to uncover the mysteries of love and human longing after the woman disappears without a trace during her odyssey from parochial Japan through Europe to a Greek island, leaving behind only computer accounts of bizarre events and stories within stories. Reprint.