A beautifully packaged hardcover edition of Haruki Murakami's classic mystery story about love, the universe, and other fictional worlds, now with a new introduction by the author. Sumire is in love with a woman who is seventeen years older. Miu is glamorous and successful. Sumire is an aspiring writer dressed in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots, like a character from a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours on the phone talking with her best friend K about the big questions of life: What is sexual desire, and should she ever tell Miu how she feels about her? Meanwhile, K wonders if he should confess his unrequited love for Sumire. Then a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek island: Sumire has mysteriously disappeared. "Confirms Murakami as a master of his craft... Out of this world." Time Out.