A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakamis classic mystery story about love the cosmos and other fictional universes now with a new introduction by the authorSumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. Miu is glamorous and successful. Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized secondhand 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.Confirms Murakami as a master of his craft.