Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Muraka

This is a rare John Gall cover edition of Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami. John Gall’s early Murakami designs are highly sought after, and this particular cover is one of the harder variants to find, especially in collectible condition.

Sputnik Sweetheart is one of Murakami’s most intimate and emotionally restrained novels, centered on unrequited love, loneliness, and the quiet distances between people. The story follows K, a schoolteacher in love with his best friend Sumire, a fiercely independent young writer who becomes obsessed with an older woman named Miu. When Sumire mysteriously disappears while traveling in Europe, the novel shifts into Murakami’s signature territory, where reality fractures and emotional absence becomes as unsettling as any supernatural event.