Name: Sputnik Sweetheart
Rating: 3.744535519125683 (366 reviews)
ISBN: 9780099448471

Haruki Murakami

Twenty two year old, Sumire is in love for the first time with a woman seventeen years her senior, Miu. Surprised that she might, after all, be a lesbian, Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend, K, a primary school teacher, who is used to answering questions, but what he most wants to say to Sumire is I love you.

Sputnik Sweetheart

As much as the narration made me uncomfortable in the first quarter of the book, the rest proved why murakami is one of the greatest writers to exist. This book pulled me into another world like it did Sumire's mother in her dream. The ambiguous ending of K. not getting a call back was interestingly comforting. He is certain Sumire still exists, in this world with him, and that is enough. 

rumitumi

Anjorin Molayo 

sputnik sweetheart is like losing what you thought you owned, and then realizing it was never yours. it’s such a riveting and engrossing story, one that makes you dream. i really liked it. 

the three characters in this book are either a victim of unrequited love or incapable of being in love. they listen, talk, and nod and at the end of the day, go back to their lonely lives and continue to love just the person who cannot love them back. 

this book made me realize that you can connect with a total stranger, it could even be on a personal level, when some part of them will always remain a mystery. we can know people, yet not know them. 

it also makes me wonder, is love just a dream we see to avoid the reality of our lonely existence?

“But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows—maybe even tomorrow.”

“In dreams you don’t need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don’t exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don’t hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites.

Reality truly bites.

Maria João Lourenço

Sputnik, meu amor

Teresa Bonifácio

Sputnik, my love is a book about unrequited love. About three people that for some reason or another don’t match the love that the other feels for them. It’s like what you’re reading is a dream and not reality.

I’m not fully sure what to believe but, I don’t think there was a parallel universe. I believe the change in appearance that happened in Sumire when she met Miu and the change in appearance of K after Sumire disappeared is a foreshadowing that is based in their mental states. I believe Miu also went through a change in mental state, but the reason she didn’t die or “disappear” is because she survived meaning: did not kill herself. Her hair permanently turned white, which can happen in times of extreme trauma, but she survived. Even though she survived she was never the same, which is a common occurrence when somebody gets that close to suicide. I believe after feeling rejected Sumire killed herself. I have zero idea where her body went. That’s one thing I don’t have an answer for I believe after reading all of Sumires letters in Greece she went through a light psychosis, which explains the unexplainable music playing in the middle of the night on a mountain in Greece. I believe K left Greece. I believe K broke up with his girlfriend (the mother of one of his students) to tie up his ends and I believe the reason something seemed off when he was talking to a security guard was because he was a shell of his former self. I believe the night he was called by his friend, was actually him killing himself to be with her.

Amanda Autumn Berrey

From the first line until the end, this book keeps me intrigued. A book that represents unrequited love perfectly and how it could drive one mad. It’s also a good read to counter book slumps as it only has 16 chapters. I finished it in a week. Definitely would recommend for those who recently dive into Haruki Murakami’s works. 

teia

Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas 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. 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. Then, a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek island: Sumire has mysteriously vanished... ** Murakami’s new novel is coming ** COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE 'The reason why death had such a hold on Tsukuru Tazaki was clear. One day his four closest friends, the friends he’d known for a long time, announced that they did not want to see him, or talk with him, ever again'

What I love most about Murakami’s work: his characters, often adults living mundane lives marked by isolation and self-indulgence, always seem so relatable. Sumire, the narrator of 

, embodies this feeling perfectly. Murakami’s ability to capture the complexities of loneliness, love, and the search for self—makes it both haunting and introspective.

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What I love most about Murakami’s work: his characters, often adults living mundane lives marked by isolation and self-indulgence, always seem so relatable. Sumire, the narrator of Sputnik Sweetheart, embodies this feeling perfectly. Murakami’s ability to capture the complexities of loneliness, love, and the search for self—makes it both haunting and introspective.

comforting because of the slow-winding pace .. but also..  confusing if u don’t have a great control over ur imagination

★★★★★ // i just know that every time i’ll think about this book, i would get this incredibly sad and nostalgic feeling. probably the most romantic yet heartbreaking Murakami i’ve read. that ending—oh, that ending.

Sputnik Sevgilim

atlantisli

Okuduğum ilk Murakami romanı. Kesinlikle okurken keyif aldığım bir kitap oldu ama sonun açık bitmesi hakkında ne düşündüğümü bilmiyorum..

Haritlak Thawikasikam

Probably the loneliest book from Murakami.

All the ingredients were there for a signature Murakami, but the cocktail didn't pack the usual punch.

Frederik De Bosschere

camila mirrorball 

Bilge Ince

Haruki Murakami eserleri benim için ya karanlık ya beyaz kadar net; ya çok beğeniyorum ya da hiç sevmiyorum ve yarıda bırakmak istiyorum. Sputnik sevgilimi ise bir çırpıda okudum ve bayıldım.

 Yeterince bildiğimizi düşündüğümüz şeylerin arkasında, bir o kadar da bilmediklerimiz gizlidir..

Eine Geschichte über das ich noch lange und oft nachdenken werde. Mitreißend, spannend und gruselig einfühlsam. Werde ich definitiv noch einmal lesen.

Celine

" Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words passing between them. No promises to keep."

This book was breathtaking, and that's all I want to say

Emma Lechner

" Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words passing between them. No promises to keep."

This book was breathtaking, and that's all I want to say

Sputnik Sweetheart

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