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Haruki Murakami has been one of the greatest contemporary writers of our generation and the evidence is glaring out to us in the books that he has written over the years. “Norwegian Wood”, “The Elephant Vanishes” or the supremely confident and eerie in bits, “Sputnik Sweetheart”, all of his books offer a slightly different take on magic realism. Though this form of writing and imagery is not obviously apparent in the last book noted here, but the usage of the variation of a woman disappearing in his books is nonetheless interesting and intriguing. In Sputnik Sweetheart, Murakami traces the life of the narrator of a schoolteacher, known to us only as K who gets calls to us in the middle of the night at 4am by a mysterious woman called Sumire. This lady confides in him her deepest and darkest secrets, however bohemian in nature, while K secretly pines for her. In turn, Sumire is herself eaten up by the lust she has for another woman, Miu who is a wine importer and who is oblivious to her friend’s desires. As usual, Murakami has managed to create interesting characters who send out erotic feelers but are unable to create any stamp-worthy action based on it. But Sumire has taken it up in her mind to break the thin veil of distance which separates her from Miu and she intends to do this soon, very soon. As is a norm in Murakami’s books, characters seem to change their characters infinitely. They do this without an iota of doubt and this is what separates Murakami from the rest of the herd, for he describes this with an odd understatement. In Murakami’s Sumire, the change is evident and she does this to propel her new self in the shadow of Miu’s image. She leaves her work to become Miu’s assistant and in due course of changing herself, she confides in K that she is unsure of herself now as she does not know anymore. All this lead to a climactic explosion in the end which is artistic and Murakami-esq in whole. This book is available of the website Book Chums at the following link. Click on it to get more information on the same. Anju Batra is a writer based in India. She like to write on Social and cultural subject. She has writer lots of Articles on the subject of Free E-Books Download and Books Buy Online.
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