{"product_id":"sputnik-sweetheart-9780375411694","title":"Sputnik Sweetheart","description":"\u003cp\u003eCombining the early  straightforward seductions of Norwegian Wood and the complex mysteries of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle  this new novelhis seventh translated into Englishis Haruki Murakami at his most satisfying and representative best.  The scenario is as simple as it is uncomfortable: a college student falls in love (once and for all  despite everything that transpires afterward) with a classmate whose devotion to Kerouac and an untidy writerly life precludes any personal commitmentsuntil she meets a considerably older and far more sophisticated businesswoman. It is through this wormhole that she enters Murakamis surreal yet humane universe  to which she serves as guide both for us and for her frustrated suitor  now a teacher. In the course of her travels from parochial Japan through Europe and ultimately to an island off the coast of Greece  she disappears without a trace  leaving only lineaments of her fate: computer accounts of bizarre events and stories within stories. The teacher  summoned to assist in the search for her  experiences his own ominous  haunting visions  which lead him nowhere but home to Japanand there  under the expanse of deep space and the still-orbiting Sputnik  he finally achieves a true understanding of his beloved. A love story  a missing-person story  a detective storyall enveloped in a philosophical mysteryand  finally  a profound meditation on human longing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651829030965,"sku":"ByrdShop_0375411690","price":44.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780375411694.jpg?v=1781841557","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/sputnik-sweetheart-9780375411694","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}