Hi, Bookworms! It has been so long since I last read. But glad to end this book slump with a beautiful classic such as Murakami. Finished two Haruki Murakami Classics in 2 Days.

The first book was Sputnik Sweetheart –

Sputnik Sweetheart is a novel about what could have been, what might have been, where worlds overlap, & love can never quite be divorced from lust. In the world of K, Sumire, and Miu, sex is often mistaken for love. Sputnik Sweetheart is strangely haunting but oh so hard to describe; is it a tale of unreciprocated love, unrealized ambition, and desire, of always wanting more? Even with it being filled with unreciprocated love rather than love, it is also one of the most romantic books ever written. Yes, at its heart, Sputnik Sweetheart is a romance novel. Wait, Sputnik Sweetheart is a detective novel. Perhaps it’s neither; perhaps I’m entirely wrong. 

The second Book was Norwegian Wood:

Haruki Murakami’s novel Norwegian Wood is a love story: on author’s own confession, “a straight, simple story” quite unlike the type of fiction he is well known for. Murakami claims the novel was a challenge to him, a test of his capability to write a “straight” story; many of his fans see it as a betrayal of what his works had stood for until then. Not having read any of Murakami’s works so far, I had the advantage of approaching it with an unprejudiced mind. And I found that while the story was straight, it was anything but simple.

Having said that I have fallen into the world of Murakami and it is just the beginning.

Have you read his Books? Which is your favorite one? Let’s chat in the comment section.