Haruki Murakami / Sputnik Sweetheart

Decided to sit down and read before i start marking... wanted to just stop halfway, but finished anyhow cos i forgot to stop.

So this is the lightest read of Murakami.
It is similar to his other works, but still rather different...
Using his quirky marginalised characters again, he brings readers round and round in the story, zooming into the lives of these characters... forcing readers to deny again their deepest darkest fears/realities/dreams/etc while they flip the pages.

Murakami's characters, usually, seemed rather out of the world for me.
But in Sputnik, they tend to come alive more(even though they still do weird things).
i tend to sympathise more with K (the narrator) and the emotional concerns he went through while in search of the missing Sumire. By flying to greece and meeting up with Miu (Sumire's lesbian lover who cannot reciprocate physically with her) reconciled his inner desires/feelings for sumire.

It may seem abrupt at the end for Sumire to reappear in K's life after some time.
And that K's cool and steady reaction "that's good" clearly showed the reversed in his mind.
i donno where the relationship will go from there.
But it seems, i feel a part of K in me.