Asleep

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''