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  by carouselambra

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Haruki Murakami

Description: "Sputnik Sweetheart finds Haruki Murakami in his minimalist mode. Shorter than the sweeping"Sputnik Sweetheart finds Haruki Murakami in his minimalist mode. Shorter than the sweeping Wind-up Bird Chronicle, less playfully bizarre than A Wild Sheep Chase, the author's seventh novel distills his signature themes into a powerful story about the loneliness of the human condition. "There was nothing solid we could depend on," the reader is told. "We were nearly boundless zeros, just pitiful little beings swept from one kind of oblivion to another."...

2008-06-13

  by mark

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: favorite

Author: Haruki Murakami

Description: Murkami is world-class. This is one of his shorterMurkami is world-class. This is one of his shorter works, but none the weaker for its length....

2007-02-04

  by riva

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: Haruki Murakami

2006-10-09

  by nshunda

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: Haruki Murakami

Tags: novella

2006-07-07

  by phthallo

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: disliked

Author: Haruki Murakami

Description: "Sputnik Sweetheart finds Haruki Murakami in his minimalist mode. Shorter than the sweeping"Sputnik Sweetheart finds Haruki Murakami in his minimalist mode. Shorter than the sweeping Wind-up Bird Chronicle, less playfully bizarre than A Wild Sheep Chase, the author's seventh novel distills his signature themes into a powerful story about the loneliness of the human condition. "There was nothing solid we could depend on," the reader is told. "We were nearly boundless zeros, just pitiful little beings swept from one kind of oblivion to another."...

2006-06-07

  by fell

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: neutral

Author: Haruki Murakami

2006-04-06

  by maggie

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Haruki Murakami

Tags: surreal japanese

2006-04-02

  by mykescipark

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Haruki Murakami

2005-11-25

  by warmjelly

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: favorite

Author: Haruki Murakami

Tags: surreal japanese

Description: "Sputnik Sweetheart finds Haruki Murakami in his minimalist mode. Shorter than the sweeping"Sputnik Sweetheart finds Haruki Murakami in his minimalist mode. Shorter than the sweeping Wind-up Bird Chronicle, less playfully bizarre than A Wild Sheep Chase, the author's seventh novel distills his signature themes into a powerful story about the loneliness of the human condition. "There was nothing solid we could depend on," the reader is told. "We were nearly boundless zeros, just pitiful little beings swept from one kind of oblivion to another."...

2005-09-02

  by parkbench

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Haruki Murakami

Tags: haruki murakami surreal japanese

Description: "Sputnik Sweetheart finds Haruki Murakami in his minimalist mode. Shorter than the sweeping"Sputnik Sweetheart finds Haruki Murakami in his minimalist mode. Shorter than the sweeping Wind-up Bird Chronicle, less playfully bizarre than A Wild Sheep Chase, the author's seventh novel distills his signature themes into a powerful story about the loneliness of the human condition. "There was nothing solid we could depend on," the reader is told. "We were nearly boundless zeros, just pitiful little beings swept from one kind of oblivion to another."...

2005-09-02