Asleep
Yoshimoto, Banana, 1964-2001
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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 from one of the best writers in contemporary international fiction.
Main title:
Asleep / Banana Yoshimoto ; translated from the Japanese by Michael Emmerich.
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Imprint:
London : Faber, 2000 (2001 [printing])
Collation:
177 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 2000.Translation of: Shirakawa Yofune.
ISBN:
9780571205370 (pbk)
Dewey class:
895.635
Language:
EnglishJapanese
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BRN:
87465
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Library at the Dock | Fiction Paperback | Y | Available |