5/21/2023 0 Comments Murakami sweetheart![]() ![]() Once on the island, he discovers Sumire has written two stories: one explaining the extent of her longing for Miu the second revealing the secret from Miu's past that bleached her hair and prevents her from getting close to anyone. ![]() When Sumire abandons her writing for life as an assistant to Miu and later disappears while the two are vacationing on a Greek island, the narrator/teacher travels across the world to help find her. Murakami's seventh novel to be translated into English is a short, enigmatic chronicle of unrequited desire involving three acquaintances the narrator, a 24-year-old Tokyo schoolteacher his friend Sumire, an erratic, dreamy writer who idolizes Jack Kerouac and Miu, a beautiful married businesswoman with a secret in her past so harrowing it has turned her hair snowy white. ![]()
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