When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of...

L'incolore Tsukuru Tazaki et ses années de pèlerinage

"Sputnik Sweetheart" von Haruki Murakami erzählt die Geschichte von K, einem Grundschullehrer, der in seine beste Freundin Sumire verliebt ist. Sumire ist eine angehende Schriftstellerin und lebt ein unkonventionelles Leben. Sie...

The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. The musician has plans to...

"Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers . . . But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this...

Part romance, part detective story, Sputnik Sweetheart tells the story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited love.K is madly in love with his best friend, Sumire, but her devotion to a writerly life precludes her from any personal...