![]() ![]() Murakami's new novel, ''Sputnik Sweetheart,'' his seventh to be translated into English, offers an eerie variation on his favorite theme. They haveīeen lifted off the boards of reality and carried into the fly space of dreams. That's because the women that his protagonists search for so fruitlessly aren't mere missing persons. However, the vanished stay vanished - whether they are the girlfriend with the ravishing ears in ''A Wild Sheep Chase'' or the tormented wife of ''The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.''Īs predictable as this trope has become in Murakami's fiction, it never fails to unnerve. When the Japanese writer performs the trick, Omen disappear more frequently in Haruki Murakami novels than they do on stage with David Copperfield. ![]() Audio: A Discussion With Haruki Murakami (Nov.Haruki Murakami's new novel plots the course of a young Japanese woman who disappears in Greece. ![]()
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