Sputnik Sweetheart
Sputnik SweetheartHaruki Murakami
Characters in Sputnik Sweetheart
4 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Sumire
A fierce, disheveled aspiring novelist who falls in love for the first time with an older woman and later vanishes on a Greek island.
K (Sputnik Sweetheart)
The unnamed narrator, a young elementary school teacher in Tokyo who is quietly in love with his only close friend, Sumire.
Supporting characters
Miu
An elegant, worldly businesswoman seventeen years Sumire's senior, who hires her and carries a mysterious trauma from her youth.
Carrot (Sputnik Sweetheart)
A boy in K's class, caught shoplifting at a supermarket, whose case draws K into a side story away from the search for Sumire.