
Asleep
by Banana Yoshimoto
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192
1 Nov 2001
Paperback
Faber & Faber, Incorporated
9780571205370
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF KITCHEN
'Enchanting.' TIME OUT
'The literary equivalent of a lo-fi playlist.' JAPAN TIMES
'Sensitive, refined and graceful.' i-D
[Yoshimoto] is the supreme poet of solitude.' SPECTATOR
Mourning her lost lover, a woman finds herself sleepwalking at night.
Another woman, in the midst of an affair with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself suddenly unable to stay awake.
And a third woman finds her dreams haunted by an old rival in love.
Across the nocturnal lives of these three women, Banana Yoshimoto weaves an enchanting ghost story, with a touch of Kafkaesque surrealism.
Readers love Banana Yoshimoto:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I love her ability to make the mundane glorious and the supernatural and unbelievably unlikely commonplace'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Yoshimoto is there to show us that there is beauty in the simplest things and truth in life's most brutal moments'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'She paints a picture with her words unlike anyone else I've ever read'



