![]() Remembering the binoculars in her bag, Miu looks across the park to her apartment but, as she peers inside, witnesses herself engaged in a disturbing sexual act with a man who may have been stalking her. Here, a document written by Sumire expresses a traumatic evening fourteen years previously in which Miu gets stuck in a Ferris wheel overnight. This passage from Sputnik Sweetheart (first published in English in 2001) depicts a curious scene haunted by images of the telephone. ![]() The telephone frequently surfaces in Murakami’s work, often standing between friends, lovers or old acquaintances as they contact each other from obscure, liminal places. I’d really like to place a call to that phone. ![]() It gave her a guilty feeling to look at her own room from so far away through the binoculars, as if she were peeking in on herself. ![]()
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