Haruki Murakami

A Japanese author.

Sputnik Sweetheart

Schoolteacher K has an unrequited love for Sumire, who is attracted to the Korean woman Miu. Miu and Sumire traipse around Europe. Sumire advances on Miu. Miu rejects her. It is thought Sumire has killed herself. K finds a floppy disk that says Sumire tried to reach her dead mother and watched herself through a window while on a ferris wheel in an alternate universe. K dates the mother of Carrot. Sumire calls K from a phone booth. That’s it.

Norwegian Wood

The protagonist recalls how Naoko’s boyfriend Kizuki committed suicide.