Here, we have a guy in love with an ordinary girl who turns out to be not ordinary and somehow vanishes into thin air. On the other hand, the basic plot is your typical Murakami plot as well. He acts on his own too, but everything goes back to Sumire in the end. She’s seen through K’s eyes, thus it’d be more fitting to say that K is the medium, particularly since (as alluded in the first chapter) he’s aware that the main subject here is Sumire. However, in a way, he’s not really the protagonist because Sputnik Sweetheart is actually about Sumire. He’s your average man-though, he sleeps with women who already have partners and is perhaps more lonely than what the ‘average man’ is usually defined as-with a way of life that he sticks to.
In other words, Sputnik Sweetheart is familiar-a welcoming sort of familiar for me. Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism, Asian LiteratureĪs a long-time reader of Murakami ( A Wild Sheep Chase Norwegian Wood Dance, Dance, Dance The Elephant Vanishes Samsa in Love Kafka on the Shore The Strange Library South of the Border, West of the Sun The Girl from Ipanema 1963/1982 and The Vampire Cabbie), reading Sputnik Sweetheart is like slipping back into the comfort of a warm home after a long day out in the biting cold.
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