Title: Asleep (novel)
Content:  Asleep （白河夜船 しらかわよぶね・しらかわよふね Shirakawa yofune or yobune) is a novel written by Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto (吉本ばなな）in 1989 and translated into English in 2000 (book was released in 2001 ) by Michael Emmerich.
Title: Asleep (novel)
Content: Hardcover - ISBN: 0-8021-1669-8 published by Grove Press ; Paperback - ISBN: 0-8021-3820-9, published by Grove Press Asleep (English edition) by Banana Yoshimoto
Title: A Man Asleep
Content:  A Man Asleep (Un homme qui dort) is a 1967 novel by the French writer Georges Perec. It uses a second-person narrative, and follows a 25-year-old student, who one day decides to be indifferent about the world. A Man Asleep was adapted into a 1974 film, The Man Who Sleeps.
Title: Sleepless (novel)
Content:  Sleepless is a science fiction and noir detective novel by Charlie Huston, published in 2010. Set in California in a dystopic alternate present, the novel portrays a world wracked by a sleeplessness pandemic caused by a prion. About ten percent of the population are infected, and, unable to find sleep, die painfully within a year. Society is on the verge of breakdown, and armed bands have turned much of the U.S. into a war zone. The novel follows Parker Haas, an idealist LAPD officer investigating the trafficking of "dreamer", the only drug capable of giving the sleepless temporary relief, and Jasper, an aging professional killer who crosses Haas' path.
Title: Asleep (novel)
Content:  In 2015, the third story was adapted for the big screen by Shingo Wakagi.
Title: Sleepless Nights (novel)
Content:  Sleepless Nights is a 1979 novel by American novelist and critic Elizabeth Hardwick. Writing for the New York Times, Lauren Groff referred to the book as "[...] brilliant, brittle and strange". The novel contains autobiographical elements. Sigrid Nunez drew inspiration from the book while writing her novel The Friend.
Title: Sleepy (novel)
Content:  Sleepy is an original novel written by Kate Orman and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Seventh Doctor, Bernice, Chris and Roz. It is part of the "Psi Powers series".
Title: The Sleeping Soul
Content:  The Sleeping Soul is an independent supernatural horror film written and directed by film writer and producer Shawn Burkett. The story centers on Grace (Ayse Howard) as she is haunted after the traumatic death of her husband (Corey A. Thrush). The film was released in March 2012.
Title: Asleep (novel)
Content:  The novel contains three stories. All three center around sleep, dreams, death, and at least two women who share the love of a single man.
Title: Sleep Has His House (novel)
Content:   Sleep Has His House (first published as The House of Sleep in New York by Doubleday in 1947) is a novel by Anna Kavan. The novel is a dark coming of age narrative, which juxtaposes realistic semi-autobiographical accounting of life, with sections of subconscious wanderings. According to critic Kate Zambreno, the novel was neither a popular nor critical success, leading to the publisher Jonathan Cape dropping her as one of their authors. Kirkus Review, when reviewing a 1980 reprint of the novel, called its style as having a "dreamlike quality--often beautiful but generally less effective [than her earlier work]".

Question: Who is the author of Asleep?
Answer: Banana Yoshimoto.
Yoshimoto Banana.