
Faber & Faber Asleep
£9.19
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.' SPECTATORMourning 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.