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Asleep
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- Book Synopsis
- 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'
- About The Author
- Banana Yoshimoto is the prize-winning and internationally bestselling author of many works of fiction, including Kitchen, Goodbye Tsugumi and The Premonition. Her work has been translated in over thirty countries. She lives in Tokyo.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780571205370
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, (09 April 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 177
- Weight
- 160 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 126 x 11 mm
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