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 life: 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 island: Sumire has mysteriously vanished...

Sputnik Sweetheart

Literature & Fiction

MURAKAMI,HARUKI

Contemporary

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The Plot Against America

ROTH, PHILIP

Literary

The Girl At The Lion D'or

FAULKS, SEBASTIAN

British & Irish

Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Soon, he is creating the most sublime fragrances in all the city. Yet there is one odor he cannot capture. It is exquisite, magical: the scent of a young virgin. And to get it he must kill. And kill. And kill...

PERFUME.

SÜSKIND, Patrick

Genre Fiction

'White Teeth' is a comic epic of multicultural Britain which tells the story of immigrants in England over a period of 40 years.

(smith).white teeth.

SMITH, ZADIE

Any Human Heart

BOYD, William

Never Let Me Go

Ishigur, Kazuo

From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.

The Year of Magical Thinking

JOAN DIDION

In No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines.

No Country for Old Men

MCCARTHY, CORMAC

United States

great story by Haruki Murakami. As always very intriguing

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