Sputnik Lovers -- A Series of Essays by Haruki Murakami

Author: Haruki Murakami
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: Haruki Murakami's new work in 1999, this is a novel of self-doubt, self-watching, and self-exploration. Homosexuality is just the cloak it uses, and the novel's setting remains as lonely, empty, helpless, melancholic, and yearning as ever. Haruki Murakami's novels and Wong Kar-wai's films have been the fashion of the past two years. They both focus on the exceptional and marginalized individuals and their emotions. However, far more people know the former than the latter. Haruki Murakami is not only one of Japan's most promising contemporary writers who has recently been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but his major works have also been translated into English. In South Korea, he is the most