Works of Haruki Murakami -- Spook's Lover

Author: Haruki Murakami
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: Haruki Murakami's 1999 new work, 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, frustrated, and yearning as ever. Haruki Murakami's novels and Wong Kar-wai's films have been fashionable in recent years. They both focus on 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 in recent years 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. Sputnik, the name of a Soviet satellite, means "companion." The girl obsessed with creation, Violet, suddenly declares she has "fallen in love" with her musical counterpart, Min, who is 17 years older, and becomes her companion on her European journey. However, on the small island of Greece, Violet disappears mysteriously. She discovers that her "lover" is just a shell, and her soul had already vanished in a thrilling night—desperate for love from the opposite sex, the girl is also unable to chase the illusion of love from the same sex. "Why must people be so lonely?" a young man who is infatuated with Violet whispers, "Is this planet not sustained by the loneliness of its people?" Haruki Murakami's new long, a new exploration of the essence of human loneliness.