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'