![]() ![]() It takes time for many people to like the regular Murakami treat. If I were to place a category for Sputnik Sweetheart, I’d say it was right in the middle of Norwegian Wood and his other surreal works, particularly The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. ![]() His only “normal” book is Norwegian Wood, commonly considered as some kind of The Catcher in the Rye in Japan. I’ve seen his talking cats, teens attempting to run away from oedipal prophecies, girls in bizarre pseudo-Sleeping Beauty states, prostitutes that only service you through the mind, and hungry couples holding up a McDonald’s just for the heck of it. I’m no stranger to Murakami’s worlds, especially those that totter on the border of reality and fantasy. Sounds like the typical set-up for another tawdry lesbian love story? Perhaps, but if you let Haruki Murakami expand that little formula in his own surreal way, you might be surprised of the product presented here in Sputnik Sweetheart. ![]() Boy loves girl…but girl loves another girl. ![]()
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