| International Standard Book Number |
9780375726057 paperback
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| International Standard Book Number |
0375726055 paperback
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| Personal Name |
Murakami, Haruki, 1949- author.
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| Uniform Title |
Suputoniku no koibito. English
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| Title Statement |
Sputnik sweetheart : a novel / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.
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| Edition Statement |
First Vintage International edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Vintage International, 2002.
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| Physical Description |
210 pages ; 21 cm.
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| General Note |
Originally published in Japanese as Suputoniku no koibito: Tokyo : Kodansha, 1999. This translation originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
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| Summary, Etc. |
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.
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| Target Audience Note |
770L Lexile
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| Language note |
Translated from the Japanese.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Teachers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women novelists Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Businesswomen Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Missing persons Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Unrequited love Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Japan Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Mystery fiction.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Gabriel, Philip, 1953- translator.
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