Sumire means "Violet" in Japanese, is a struggling writer who is the love of the narrator of this book whose name I could not discover while reading this whole book. It's mentioned as K somewhere I believe.

Sumire is that kind of rare human pieces who gets connected with the other like a missing part of puzzle but not with every other pieces. She is connected with the narrator. Their friendship made me realise that every other human does have their other part from whom you could say everything, everything. It doesn't necessarily have to be your lover, your husband or your blood relative. It's just the other part of your puzzle  but it's only up to you that you hold on to them because of their value or just let them go because they are none of the three mentioned above.

 But all this while she discovers that she is in love with Miu(the women who happens to be her Sputnik Sweetheart). I won't reveal why did she named her Sputnik Sweetheart, I'll leave this luxury to you as you would dive down in this perfect creation of Murakami.

I always wonder how many realms of the world does Murakami sees together and how is he able to put all those realms into few pages and create a whole novel out of it.

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Sputnik Sweetheart is a perfect mixture of love, lust ,suspense and mystery.

There's two stories going along and those later merge into one. The beauty that I find about Sputnik Sweetheart is that the story is as flawed as we are from inside. None of the character is as perfect as any clichéd movie or book shows them to be. Even the ending left me dangling into a bit of bewilderment that what actually happened in the termination, craving few more pages of the book.

But it ended in those damn 230 pages just like Murakami says ~ " It doesn't last for ever"