Sputnik Lovers (A Collection of Works by Haruki Murakami)

Author: Lin Shaohua
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: A new work by Haruki Murakami in 1999, this is a novel of self-doubt, self-watching, and self-exploration. Homosexuality is merely the cloak it borrows; the novel's setting remains as lonely, empty, helpless, melancholic, and wistful. Murakami's novels, along with Wong Kar-wai's films, have been the fashion of the past two years. Both focus on the exceptional and marginalized individuals and their emotions. However, far more people know the former than the latter. Murakami is not only one of Japan's most promising contemporary writers in recent years, with a chance to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, but his major works have also been translated into English. In South Korea, he is the most beloved