Sputnik Sweetheart: A Story of Love, Loss, and the Unknowable

"Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing direction."

Sumire is a dreamer, an aspiring writer lost in the pages of Kerouac, navigating life in oversized coats and clunky boots. She is also in love—with Miu, an elegant and enigmatic woman seventeen years her senior. But where Sumire is untamed and brimming with restless ambition, Miu is composed, successful, and seemingly untouchable.

As Sumire wrestles with her unspoken desires, her closest confidant, K, listens patiently—though he, too, harbors a secret love: for Sumire herself. Then, one day, a call from a distant Greek island shatters everything. Sumire has vanished without a trace.

In this haunting and deeply introspective novel, Haruki Murakami crafts a mesmerizing tale of longing, obsession, and the spaces between us that can never quite be bridged. Sputnik Sweetheart is a meditation on love’s mysteries—both the kind that binds us and the kind that leaves us lost in its wake.