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... ** Murakami's new novel is coming ** COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND
HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE 'The reason why death had such a hold on Tsukuru Tazaki was clear.
One day his four closest friends the friends he'd known for a long time announced that they
did not want to see him or talk with him ever again'
