Asleep

An enchanting book from the bestselling author of Kitchen: three love stories each sly and mystical as a ghost story.

"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.

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'