description: Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel.Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in what is sexual desire, and should she ever tell Miu how she feels for her? Meanwhile K wonders whether he should confess his own unrequited love for Sumire.Then, a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek Sumire has mysteriously vanished...
language: Japanese
title: スプートニクの恋人
titlecomplete: スプートニクの恋人
characters: Miu, K, Sumire
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Asia, LGBT, Japan, Japanese Literature, Romance, Literature, Novels, Contemporary
ratings_count: 150749
places: Greece, Japan
publisher: Kodansha International Ltd ,Japan