Asleep -- Banana Yoshimoto, Paperback

Demonstrating again the artful simplicity and depth of her vision, Banana Yoshimoto reestablishes her place as a writer of international stature in a book that may be her most delightful since Kitchen.

In Asleep, Yoshimoto spins the stories of three young women bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning for a lost lover, finds herself sleepwalking at night. Another, who has embarked on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself suddenly unable to stay awake. A third finds her sleep haunted by a woman against whom she was once pitted in a love triangle. Sly and mystical as a ghost story, with a touch of Kafkaesque surrealism, Asleep is an enchanting new book from one of the best writers in contemporary international fiction.


Author: Banana Yoshimoto
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 07/12/2001
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.27h x 5.00w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9780802138200

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 08/24/2001 pg. 129
New York Times 09/23/2001 pg. 28