Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto

Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto

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.

'Yoshimoto's writing is lucid, earnest and disarming, as emotionally observant as Jane Smiley's, as fluently readable as Anne Tyler's' New York Times

Banana Yoshimoto is the prize-winning and internationally bestselling author of many works of fiction, including Kitchen, Goodbye Tsugumi and The Premonition. Her work has been translated in over thirty countries. She lives in Tokyo.

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ISBN 13	9780571205370
ISBN 10	0571205372
Title	Asleep
Author	Banana Yoshimoto
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Year published	2001-09-03
Number of pages	192
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