Book description
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...
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo.
He is the author of many novels as well as short stories and
non-fiction. His works include
Norwegian Wood, A Wind-up Bird
Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore, After Dark
and
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
. His work has been translated into more than forty languages, and the
most recent of his many international honours is the Jerusalem Prize,
whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V.
S. Naipaul.
