VINTAGE CLASSICS : SPUTNIK SWEETHEART PB – HARUKI MURAKAMI

"<p><b>A mystery story about love, the cosmos and other fictional universes.</b><br /><br />Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. Miu is glamorous and successful. Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel.<br /><br />Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life: what is sexual desire, and should she ever tell Miu how she feels for her? Meanwhile K wonders whether he should confess his own unrequited love for Sumire.<br /><br />Then, a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek island: Sumire has mysteriously vanished…<br /><br /><b>WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR</b><br /><br /><b> Confirms Murakami as a master of his craft… Out of this world <i>Time Out</i></b></p>"