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This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

Meet Murakami in Vintage Classics - new, jazz-soaked, nostalgically surreal red spine editions of one of our great visionary storytellers

A mystery story about love, the cosmos and other fictional universes.

Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. Miu is glamorous and successful. Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel.

Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life: what is sexual desire, and should she ever tell Miu how she feels for her? Meanwhile K wonders whether he should confess his own unrequited love for Sumire.

Then, a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek island: Sumire has mysteriously vanished...

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

'Confirms Murakami as a master of his craft... Out of this world' Time Out

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781529982336
Published: May 2026

Number of pages: 256
Width: 128 mm
Height: 196 mm
Depth: 17 mm

Publisher: Vintage Publishing