Sputnik Sweetheart

Sputnik Sweetheart has touched me deeper and pushed me further than anything I’ve read in a long time * Guardian *
How does Murakami manage to make poetry while writing of contemporary life and emotions? I am weak-kneed with admiration * Independent on Sunday *
A beautiful novel, as light as a feather, and yet enduringly sad… a captivating book from one of the world’s most interesting authors * Sunday Herald *
Murakami has been compared to everyone from Raymond Carver to Raymond Chandler - which should tell you only one thing: he’s unique * Independent *
Confirms Murakami as a master of his craft… Out of this world * Time Out *

Haruki Murakami is the author of numerous novels, short stories, and non-fiction works. In 1978, he was running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo when the impulse to write a novel struck him. His first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers’ award and was published the following year.

His acclaimed works include Norwegian Wood, which turned him into a literary phenomenon, as well as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, First Person Singular, and The City and Its Uncertain Walls. Murakami’s distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humor, continues to enchant readers worldwide.

Philip Gabriel is the translator of many novels and short stories by Haruki Murakami and other modern writers. He is the author of Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature and Spirit Matters: The Transcendent in Modern Japanese Literature. Gabriel is the recipient of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature (2001) and the 2006 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize.

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