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Authors: Haruki Murakami

Tags: #Literary, #Contemporary, #General, #Romance, #Teachers, #Missing persons, #Japan, #Unrequited love, #Fiction, #Women novelists, #Businesswomen

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(nonfiction)

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A Wild Sheep Chase

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2001 by Haruki Murakami

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Distributed by Random House, Inc., New York.

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Originally published in Japan as
Supuutoniku no koibito
by Kodansha, Tokyo, in 1999. Copyright ©
1999
by Haruki Murakami

Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

The quote from Pushkin is from
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse,
translated by Babette Deutsch (Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 1999).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Murakami, Haruki, [date]
 [Supuutoniku no koibito. English]
Sputnik sweetheart / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.
p.   cm.
I. Gabriel, J. Philip.  II. Title.
pl856.u673  s8713  2001
895.6’35—dc21     00-062004

This translation is dedicated to Mika. —P.G.

eISBN: 978-0-375-41346-9

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