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Sputnik Sweetheart (Vintage books) (Paperback)
Short Description for Sputnik SweetheartTwenty two year old, Sumire is in love for the first time with a woman seventeen years her senior, Miu. Surprised that she might, after all, be a lesbian, Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend, K, a primary school teacher, who is used to answering questions, but what he most wants to say to Sumire is "I love you."
Full description- Publisher: VINTAGE
- Published: 03 October 2002
- Format: Paperback 240 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780099448471 ISBN 10: 0099448475
- Sales rank: 1,756
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Intense and hypnotic
This book is like poetry. I can't say I've ever experienced such strong sensory feedback reading a novel before. I could see the streets, smell the smells.
Towards the end of the book I became incredibly tense, barely able to breathe, anticipating what might happen to the characters.
In some ways, this author seems like a Japanese Kurt Vonnegut in terms of writing style. This is the first novel of his I've read, but I'm about to start another.
The aim of the book ...more This book is like poetry. I can't say I've ever experienced such strong sensory feedback reading a novel before. I could see the streets, smell the smells.
Towards the end of the book I became incredibly tense, barely able to breathe, anticipating what might happen to the characters.
In some ways, this author seems like a Japanese Kurt Vonnegut in terms of writing style. This is the first novel of his I've read, but I'm about to start another.
The aim of the book in many ways seems to be to leave you unsettled and questioning your understanding of the story. Not everyone's cup of tea, but I love that sort of thing ;-)
Don't read the ending just before sleep, you'll be up all night pondering the nature of reality (this is not hyperbole, it happened to me!) by Wendy
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