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Author: Murakami, Haruki, Murakami, Haruki

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 3 August 2023 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Murakami Collectible Classics’ series.

Hardback | 256 pages
223 x 142 x 26 | 356g

A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami’s classic mystery story about love, the cosmos and other fictional universes, now with a new introduction by the authorSumire 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.

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…

‘Confirms Murakami as a master of his craft… Out of this world’ Time Out