Sputnik Sweetheart

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English language

Published Oct. 30, 2001 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-0-375-41346-9
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OCLC Number:
294955073

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Sputnik Sweetheart (スプートニクの恋人, Supūtoniku no Koibito) is a novel by Haruki Murakami, published in Japan, by Kodansha, in 1999. An English translation by Philip Gabriel was then published in 2001.

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Ummm, según ía lendo... preguntábame a onde me quería levar o autor. En realidade estiven todo o tempo onde el quería: dándolle voltas á cabeza.

A historia é unha excusa para facer falar ao protagonista principal, que inicialmente se sitúa como narrador que pon a luz sobre outra persoa e mediada a novela sitúase no centro da acción. Este cambio, esta inversión, fai que a estrutura da novela atenda ás visicitudes dos protagonistas (isto non é un spoiler). Pequenos detalles como este, formais e sen complicacións, son moi bonitos de apreciar.

A novela semella ir nunha dirección pero realmente reflexiona acerca da identidade propia, da autopercepción e da construcción desa identidade en relación a nós mesmos e a quen nos rodea.

Hai algún capítulo que non lle atopei sentido, ou máis ben a razón da súa inclusión (no contexto da novela) pero pode que simplemente estivesen alí para …

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3 stars

Nice quick read. Kinda weirded out by how much Murakami includes sexual trauma in so many of his books. I guess that's his thing?

Haruki Murakami, the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, plunges us into an urbane Japan of jazz bars, coffee shops, Jack Kerouac, and the Beatles to tell this story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited loves.

A college student, identified only as “K,” falls in love with his classmate, Sumire. But devotion to an untidy writerly life precludes her from any personal commitments–until she meets Miu, an older and much more sophisticated businesswoman. When Sumire disappears from an island off the coast of Greece, “K” is solicited to join the search party and finds himself drawn back into her world and beset by ominous, haunting visions. A love story combined with a detective story, Sputnik Sweetheart ultimately lingers in the …

Review of 'Sputnik, mi amor' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Hay algo extraño en Murakami que no termino de entender. Nunca logra conmoverme del todo pero me despeja la mente. Logra guiarme con su narrativa pero no se participa.

El ejercicio simbólico de construir sentido parece a medias y creo que es ahí donde me atrapa. Me quedo pensando una y otra vez en ciertos gestos, en líneas cortas.

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