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Asleep
Banana Yoshimoto
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Description for Asleep
Paperback. "Asleep" tells the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning a lost love, finds herself sleepwalking at night. Another, embarking on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself unable to stay awake. The third finds her sleep haunted. Translator(s): Emmerich, Michael. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
Banana Yoshimoto has a magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters, and here she spins the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning 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 another woman whom she was once pitted against in a love triangle. Sly and mystical as a ghost story, with a touch of Kafkaesque surrealism, Asleep is an enchanting book ... Read more
Banana Yoshimoto has a magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters, and here she spins the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning 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 another woman whom she was once pitted against in a love triangle. Sly and mystical as a ghost story, with a touch of Kafkaesque surrealism, Asleep is an enchanting book ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571205370
SKU
V9780571205370
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-98
About Banana Yoshimoto
Banana Yoshimoto is the prize-winning and internationally bestselling author of Kitchen, N.P., Lizard, Amrita, Asleep and Goodbye Tsugumi. She has published ten books in English translation and her work has been translated and published in over thirty countries. She lives in Tokyo. Michael Emmerich received a BA from Princeton University. After completing research in Japanese literature studies at Ritsumeikan University ... Read more
Reviews for Asleep
'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