Satellite Lovers

Author: Haruki Murakami
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Publication 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. The situation of the novel remains as lonely, empty, helpless, frustrated, and wistful 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 exceptional and marginal 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 won the Nobel Prize in Literature, but his main works have also been translated into English. In South Korea, he is the most beloved writer among twenty-two-year-olds. In the spring of her twenty-second year, Violette fell in love for the first time in her life. It was a whirlwind of love, sweeping across the boundless grasslands with the force of a tornado. It mercilessly destroyed everything in its path and then repeatedly rolled them into the sky. It was a monumental kind of love. And the object of her affection was seventeen years older than her, married, and also a woman.” This is the beginning of Haruki Murakami's new novel, "The Spook's Partner." The situation of the novel remains as lonely, empty, helpless, frustrated, and wistful as ever, while the author's pen pointed more magically toward himself—what exactly is "oneself"? Where does one belong? In this sense, it is a novel of self-doubt, self-watching, and self-exploration. Homosexuality is just the cloak it uses.