Cool realism and fantasy combine in the story of Sumire and Miu. One is a young, naive, romantic aspiring writer; the other is a successful businesswoman seventeen years her senior. Miu is impervious to the longing of the young woman, who calls her “süsser Sputnik". On a trip through France and Italy to a small Greek island, Sumire suddenly disappears — all traces of her fate are lost. A young teacher who loves the bewitching Sumire finds records of bizarre incidents and stories within stories that also uncover a secret of Miu’s in Switzerland. With Haruki Murakami’s new novel “Sputnik Sweetheart" we reach the edges of reality, yet even when people orbit separately, lonely like a Sputnik, there is another side of life: “We only have to dream."