Sputnik Sweetheart is a novel by Haruki Murakami. I found myself reading it on the train to San Diego, and I was very glad I brought it. It’s a charming book, really, and being a Murakami novel the surreal elements are most certainly present. This is definitely a tough one to frame as I’ve still been thinking, even after a few weeks, about the novel and its purpose. In Sputnik Sweetheart Murakami explores the nature of intimacy as it applies to our relationships, both romantic and not. The surreal elements certainly highlight the fact that we may never be as close as we hope or think, but I still see Sputnik Sweetheart as a largely positive piece of literature — and one that certainly warrants multiple readings.
Murakami has this excellent way of capturing our contemporary lifestyles, and Sputnik Sweetheart is no exception. It’s fun to read and to suspend our preconceptions concerning the nature of reality. Murakami has surprisingly few.
Check this one out.
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