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I long for the days before the Last Desolation

Informed by the latest studies in psychology

and self growth

and Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Sputnik Sweetheart Condition:Good " (Evening Standard)Haruki Murakami, the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, plunges us into an urbane Japan of jazz bars, coffee shops, Jack Kerouac, and the Beatles to tell this story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited loves. A college student, identified only as K, falls in love with his classmate, Sumire. But devotion to an untidy writerly life precludes her from any personal commitmentsuntil she meets Miu,