working in a Tokyo bento shop
Amid the cockroaches and call-centres
She spends her working life telling others how to manage their money
this book draws from army war diaries
Are vampires morally absolved if they kill only animals and not people
Sputnik Sweetheart Rose George working in a Tokyo bentoHaruki 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,