Sputnik Sweetheart Condition:Good sardines and slaps across the

sardines and slaps across the face

is tormented by the loss of a child decades earlier and convinced that a member of his family committed murder

alienated white outsider in an Alaskan Inuit community

Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that

is considered the first true piece of historical writing in Western literature

Sputnik Sweetheart Condition:Good sardines and slaps across theHaruki 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,