![]() ![]() Their story is set in 1957, as Russia's satellite Sputnik travels through space-an image explicitly connected to Sumire's partially unrequited love for Miu, the (older, married) Korean woman who becomes her employer, mentor, and traveling companion. ![]() Narrated by an unnamed student and schoolteacher, it chronicles his frustrating relationship with Sumire, a headstrong young woman devoted to Jack Kerouac and the Beats and determined to make her way as a novelist. This latest from the acclaimed Japanese author of A Wild Sheep Chase (1989) and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1997) is an equally deft and affecting dramatization of recent postwar alienation and anomie. ![]()
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